ARCH&UD 411Introductory Design Studio
Architecture and Urban Design · 6 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Introduction to sketching, drawing, perspectives, CAD. Architectural composition is initially studied in terms of its separate elements. After each is studied by means of manipulative exercise that allows for experimentation of its intrinsic possibilities, students undertake series of closely controlled exercises dealing with combining elements and then design small buildings.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2025
- Fall 2026
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
UCLA lists no requisites for this course.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ARCH&UD 411
- ARCH&UD 412Building Design Studio
- ARCH&UD 413Building Design with Landscape Studio
1 course lists this as a requisite. Showing 3 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.