UCLA Architecture & Urban Design

Summer Workshops
2 week programs in Aug./Sept. open to both students and professionals exploring architecture

REGISTRATION
http://www.specialprograms.ucla.edu/ArchitectureWorkshops/overview.htm
Courses and workshops require a minimum enrollment to take place.
Please visit www.aud.ucla.edu or contact Jim Kies at Jim.kies@ucla.edu for more information.

WORKSHOPS
PORTFOLIO + RHINO + REPRESENTATION
This two-week workshop is designed to instruct students in skills
This workshop will explore a variety of possibilities for modeling
for portfolio layout, the central component in graduate school
complex form using Rhino as the main software platform.
applications for architecture, landscape architecture and related
Students will also learn all necessary skills to develop advanced
design fields. Students will also learn to write and edit their
methods of 2D and 3D representation, from orthographic
statements of purpose. The workshop will present examples of
projections and rendering to STL meshes for rapid prototypes
successful portfolios and introduce techniques for graphic commu-
presentation techniques.
nication including image-work, line-work and diagrams. Students
will be given direct feedback through one-on-one critiques as well
as pin-up reviews based on the layouts they produce of their own DIGITAL REPRESENTATION
work. The workshop will also include close editing of texts for the As an Introduction to the March I Program at UCLA, this
portfolio and dedicate time to both conceiving and writing a workshop will provide the knowledge and skills to develop
successful statement of purpose. proficiency in various modes of architectural communication

with Grasshopper and Processing, and Illustrator as the primary

BASIC MAYA software platforms.
As an introduction to MAYA software, this class will meet six times
over two weeks to deliver technical expertise in using this complex
In particular, the course explores a wide range of tools and
digital modeling platform as an architectural tool. Students will
techniques associated to both digital and analogous ways of
emerge from the course with a strong understanding of the
production to manifest their inherent complexity by underlying
their processes of formal and organizational evolution.Highly
how to handle it with precision and control. Skills for representing
focused exercises will lead to one of the ultimate aspirations of
complex geometry will be honed to make each individual’s interests
this workshop; to introduce new ways of thinking about form
read clearly through drawings.
and geometry and consequently develop techniques that could
be actively introduced and actualized into future design studio
GRASSHOPPER AND PROCESSING projects.
This course will focus on how to implement parametric and
algorithmic techniques into the overall architectural design process,
using Grasshopper and Processing as the primary software
DIGITAL RENDERING
VRay; Mental Ray and Maxwell will be used as the main
platforms.. Students will have the opportunity to explore introduced
software platforms to develop various types of imaginery and
techniques through a series of short assignments organized within
architectural visualization.
five main categories: Data sets and Math, Transformation,
Parametric Space, Deformation and Morphing and Mapping.
VRay; Mental Ray and Maxwell will be used as the main
software platforms to develop various types of imaginery and
architectural visualization.