UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression. Welcome to UCLA AUD! Registration now open for AUD's 2025 Summer Programs: TeenArch and JumpStart Opens a new window

The UCLA Architecture and Urban Design community is supportive, intellectually engaging, and highly motivated. Students learn in intimate studio and seminar settings from faculty who are scholars, designers, and practicing professionals.

If you are interested in studying design and architecture, UCLA AUD offers an array of opportunity. For a full look at life at AUD, as well as details about applying, check out our portals below. The application cycle for Fall 2025 matriculation has now closed

Our summer programs provide unique opportunities for college students and high school students to explore architecture and design at UCLA for UC college credit. Students experience design studios, learn the current techniques of digitally-driven design, modeling and drawing, and develop a portfolio they can use to apply to graduate programs.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design’s long-standing dedication to communicating clear and articulate architectural ideas fosters critical thinkers who become leaders in practice, academia, and on the global stage

Sited in Perloff Hall on UCLA's immersive Main Campus, the MSAUD program benefits from deep engagement with AUD's BA, MArch, MA, and PhD cohorts, as well as colleagues across the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and Beyond.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression. Welcome to UCLA AUD! Registration now open for AUD's 2025 Summer Programs: TeenArch and JumpStart Opens a new window

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression. Our exceptional faculty teach students to engage the world around them, to see ideas as productive forms of response, and to leverage design and writing as expressions of …

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design offers two academic graduate degrees: the Master of Arts in Architecture (MA) and Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture (PhD). The programs produce students whose scholarship aims to provoke and operate within architecture’s public, professional, and scholarly constituencies.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is a champion of ideas and their articulate expression.