UCLA Department of Architecture
and Urban Design
Architectural Design Workshops and SeminarsSummer 2012
Faculty
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Program Director: Georgina Huljich
Georgina Huljich is co principal of PATTERNS, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles. PATTERNS work is internationally recognized for its innovative approach to design and architecture that fuses advanced computation with an extensive understanding of form, tectonics and materials. Active members of a so-called digital generation, what sets PATTERNS apart is not only its overt ambition to materialization but the quality and extent of realized work.
Their most influential projects include Prism Gallery in Los Angeles praised for its pioneering use of resin-based plastic in its innovative façade, FyF Residence in Rosario Argentina, and a Research Building in Chengdu, China. Jujuy Redux, an ambitious ten-story housing project in Argentina is currently under construction.
PATTERNS work has received numerous prizes and awards, being the most recent the 2011 Emerging Voices Award by The Architectural League in NY and the nomination for the 2010 Iakov Chernikov Prize. It has also been exhibited worldwide at the Venice, Shenzhen and Beijing Biennales, SF MOMA, MAK Vienna, Chicago Art Institute, Artists Space New York and Gyeonggi Foundation in Korea, among many other critical venues.
PATTERNS has lectured extensively and their work has been published in the most important books and magazines worldwide. Their first book “Embedded” is forthcoming by the Beijing based AADCU. Georgina Huljich was the 2005-2006 Maybeck Fellow at UC Berkeley and has previously worked for the Guggenheim Museum, the architectural firm Dean/Wolf architects in New York and as a project designer at Morphosis in Los Angeles.
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Program Coordinator: Kelly Bair
Kelly Bair is principal of Los Angeles based grayarea, a design & research studio committed to exploring the fuzzy boundaries between a multitude of design disciplines. Curiosities include architecture & interiors, product & furniture, graphic & branding strategies. Bair has received numerous awards including First Place in the Luvo International Design Competition and Finalist in the Moonfish Building Competition in Manchester England. She is the recipient of the UCLA Fellowship Award and the UCLA Scholarship Grant. Bair holds adjunct faculty appointments at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Woodbury University, and Pasadena City College in visual / technology seminars and design studio at the undergraduate and graduate level.
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Portfolio +
Instructor: Kelly Bair
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Maya Basic; Rhino
Instructor: Drew Puzey
Drew Pusey is a freelance architect/motion designer living in Los Angeles and a UCLAUD alumnus. He has worked in both architecture and motion graphics on everything from music videos, to interface design, to architectural visualization. He currently works for BMW Designworks in Thousand Oaks, CA.
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Digital Representation [Exclusively ] for Incoming MArch I Students); Digital Rendering
Instructor: James Vincent
James Vincent was born in Los Angeles, California. While earning a Bachelor of Architecture from SCI-Arc in 2005, James began working for PATTERNS were he was involved on several distinguished projects such as the FYF Residence and The ELEMENT. It is here that James established a strong desire to pursue theoretical research in computational and formal architecture and its relationship to materiality and fabrication. Upon graduating he worked for Testa & Weiser.
With a strong desire to continue independent research, he enrolled and completed a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University in New York in 2008. After graduating James became a lead designer at MSInc in Boston Massachusetts, were he was involved in several large-scale projects in Dubai, South Korea and Europe. During this time he began pursuing a teaching career, where he taught several summer classes and workshops at the Department of Architecture at UCLA. His current research focuses on the integration of building systems leading to an architectural outcome that encompasses ideas from material, tectonics and program.
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Rhino Scripting
Instructor: Jonathon Stahl
Jonathon Stahl is a lead designer at Testa Weiser, Inc., a multidisciplinary studio focused on the design of architecture, products, and media for clients worldwide. He co-teaches graduate advanced design studios and seminars at the Southern California Institute of Architecture, SCI_Arc, with Peter Testa. Jonathon has also led computational design workshops at UCLA's Architecture and Urban Design school.
Jonathon holds an M.Arch II (with honors) from SCI_Arc where he received a graduate thesis scholarship for his role in 'Blaxium Schemata', a speculative project negotiating the impact of robotics, computation, and post-animation on architecture. He also holds a B.S.Arch (with honors) from Washington State University.
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Revit
Instructor: Ethan Marsh
Ethan Marsh
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Grasshopper
Instructor: Robbie Eleazer
Robbie Eleazer is a Project Designer at Emergent Architecture; an internationally recognized design office operating at the forefront of digital design. At Emergent, Rob functions as a parametric design expert and has worked as a designer for two winning competitions.
Before Joining Emergent, Rob received his M.Arch II from the Southern California Institute of Architecture where his work was exhibited in the Selected Thesis Exhibition and the Design Miami/Basel Show. Rob received the SCI-Arc scholarship, SCI-Arc Thesis scholarship and The Henry Adams AIA Certificate. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Clemson University where he received the St. Petersburg Prize.
Rob previously worked for P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S and Atelier Manferdini. He has also led grasshopper design workshops at UCLA's Architecture and Urban Design school and Texas Tech's Digital Design and Fabrication's Graduate program.
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Digital Project
Instructor: Narineh Mirzaeian
Narineh Mirzaeian is currently an Associate at Gehry Partners in Los Angeles where she’s played a key role on numerous projects completed and under construction in California, Las Vegas, Paris and Basel. Previous positions include project designer at Graft, where she contributed to the realization of a number of AIA award winning projects and co-principal of GeAr where she was awarded Second Prize at the 2003 Miami Biennale, an Honorable Mention at the New York High Line Competition and invited to take part in a range of exhibitions with the ‘Vertical Garden’ installation. She has also participated in various Film Festivals with her animated short ‘The Relic’, based on an architectural competition entry. Ms Mirzaeian holds a professional degree in Architecture from the University of Southern California and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Los Angeles where her thesis project, in collaboration with Thom Maine, was published as part of the LA NOW series, garnering various awards, including the prestigious P/A Award. She’s taught at the University of California, Los Angeles as well as the Southern California Institute of Architecture. Her work has been published in Metropolis, Interior Design, Architectural Record, Architecture, GA Document and exhibited extensively.
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