ARCH&UD 414Major Building Design Studio
Architecture and Urban Design · 6 units · Graduate professional courses (400-499)
Designed for second-year graduate students. Introduction to issues such as programming and program manipulation, site planning, urban design, and integration of technical systems and architectural expression. Emphasis either on treatment in breadth of large-scale projects or exploration in depth and detail of smaller-scale projects. Students learn to integrate structure and environmental control and to present their ideas in graphic or model form.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Winter 2026
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 413.
BruinTree reads · Prerequisite
confidence 1.00 · from textRequires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ARCH&UD 414
- ARCH&UD 413Building Design with Landscape Studio
- ARCH&UD 412Building Design Studio
- ARCH&UD 411Introductory Design Studio
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 3 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
ARCH&UD 414
- ARCH&UD 415Comprehensive Studio
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.