Now Announcing: UCLA AUD's 2025 Summer Lecture Series

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design is pleased to announce its 2025 Summer Lecture Series, part of the programming for AUD's two Summer Programs: TeenArch Studio and JumpStart. All lectures will be presented in-person in AUD's Perloff Hall Decafe, beginning at 12:30 pm, with Zoom available for live virtual viewing.

Led by Summer Programs Director Julia Koerner, both the JumpStart program and TeenArch Studio engage students in a wide range of activities, from intensive design exercises, individual feedback sessions, and small group discussions, to studio-wide presentations and reviews. The Summer Lecture Series offers programming and conversation that is both fundamental and complementary to Summer Programs pedagogy.

While accurate at the time of this posting, all details about the Summer Lecture Series are subject to change; please bookmark this page for updates.

The 2025 Summer Lecture Series includes:

Monday, June 23
Mariana Ibañez (Chair and Associate Professor, UCLA AUD, and Founding Principal, Ibañez Kim)
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Friday, June 27
Katy Barkan (Lecturer, UCLA AUD) and Claus Benjamin Freyinger (Lecturer, UCLA AUD)
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Monday, June 30
Kwamina Monney (Herzog & de Meuron)
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Thursday, July 3
Khorshid Naderi-Azad (UBC, WallyWool), Emmanuel Osorno (Northeastern University, EOS), and Aura Venckunaite (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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Monday, July 7
Julia Koerner (Associate Adjunct Professor and Director of Summer Programs, UCLA AUD, and Founding Principal, JK3D)
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Friday, July 11
Katarina Ritcher-Lunn (Harvard GSD) and Pooneh Erami (Architectural Association, London)
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Monday, July 14
Neil Denari (Professor, UCLA AUD, and Founding Principal, NMDA, Inc.) and David Eskenazi (Faculty, SCI-Arc, and Founding Principal, d.esk)
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