Designing with Disaster is the second iteration of the Living with Disaster exhibition, which took place in Tokyo in 2022. Designing with Disaster brings the content to Los Angeles to be displayed in a new context and is accompanied by events and symposia.
A powerful and optimistic array of innovative urban designs focused on withstanding natural- and human-instigated disasters while simultaneously responding to the multiple hazards of climate change.
This year Rumble Event framed a unique occasion when students from parallel studios: Fire City: Towards Regenerative Urbanism with Hitoshi Abe (M.Arch. Research Studio) and Fire LA-ND with Jeffrey Inaba and David Jimenez Iniesta (M.S.AUD Research Studio) showcased their works to the guests of the event. During the event, A.UD faculty and students engage the broader architecture and urban design discussions about the future of design and the built environment under the conditions of changing environment. With its twin focus on fire-risk-reduction and fire-resilience, the joint studios draw from a diverse network of educational partners and researchers. Throughout the year, FireCity and FireLand studios accommodated presentations from fire-related, city planning, and urban design experts in local regeneration efforts, architects, and researchers. Students in parallel studios are developing diverse proposals based on shared findings. Because architecture yields insights through both research and design, the studios are organized to take the best advantage of both modalities of exploration – Research Studio and Suprastudio formats. The parallel structure is intended to share AUD’s cross-campus intelligence through a feedback loop of collaboration and dialogue among the students and across the globe with other ArcDR3 participants.
The first ArcDR³ event – ArcDR³ Forum Vol.1: New Agendas for Regenerative Urbanism was held on Friday, June 26. Under the umbrella of the “Grand Syllabus,” the 11 participating universities presented their syllabi for their context-specific design studios in the upcoming 2020-2021 academic year. Discussions were divided into three panels: #1: Earth, Wind and Fire, #2: Water, and #3: Multi-hazard.
The 2019-2020 WORKHOUSE Latent Futures Research Studio is the final of the WORKHOUSE Trilogy. Starting in 2017, the WORKHOUSE Research studio has built on previous xLAB research initiatives to explore the gray zone between domestic and workspaces and activities. With the support of Mitsui Fudosan—a leading real estate company in Japan, xLAB’s ongoing research examines the relationship between architecture and broad shifts of technology, economy, and lifestyle. The final WORKHOUSE Studio focused on creating architecture as a platform for actively producing the future.
Since 2017, WORKHOUSE Research Studio explores many peculiar combinations of programs and new ideas producing unique species of Architecture brought up by the co-working culture.
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design's end-of-year all-school exposition RUMBLE engages students, faculty, and the international design community in a discourse on the forefront of contemporary design and innovation. Every year, Research Studio lead by Hitoshi Abe presents its research and design projects to leading critics and practitioners.
xLAB Summer Program 2019 focused on the topic of Resilience. Cities in the 21st century face a growing number of technological, social, and environmental challenges that come around with unprecedented speed and degree of unpredictability. This condition creates an urgency to redefine strategies for designing buildings, cities, and environments.
The WORKHOUSE research studio led by Hitoshi Abe explored the gray zone between domestic and work life. After a period of research, students developed business plans as architectural narratives to set up the design of a co-working building in Los Angeles.
The xLAB Summer Program is a cross-disciplinary catalyst for architectural education that develops strategies for our built environment through experimental exchanges, the testing of ideas, and the sharing of knowledge.
Each year a new programmatic theme offers a research topic on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Community (2017), Mobility (2018), and […]
The WORKHOUSE Research Studio studies creative workplaces through the analysis of creative offices and coworking spaces.
Each year a new programmatic theme offers a research topic on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: Community (2017), Mobility (2018), and […]
As a design and research problem, students were asked to consider the increasingly blurred boundaries between the office and […]
