POOL is the student magazine of the Department of Architecture & Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles.
POOL is driven by an interest in an expanding definition of architectural work that, in a culture of high volume content exchange, considers curation as a primary form of cultural production. Following this, we contend that the syllabus, the archive, and the aggregator are all valid forms of architectural work that we welcome and encourage in our publication.
POOL is a site of this type of work, experimenting with interface between its three primary platforms: event, digital, and print. Events and ongoing digital publication act not only as productive indicators of relevant themes, but also feed into an annual print edition.
POOL aspires to reach new audiences, seeing the separation of fields into hermeneutic discourses as unproductive, and strives instead for the inclusion of new and unexpected audiences through the incorporation of media unconventional to architectural discourse.
POOL is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
Partial funding provided by UCLA Graduate Students Association Publications.
For questions or information please email POOL@aud.ucla.edu
2024-25
Managing Editors: Hunter Blackwell, Alexandra Hillard Ferreira, Anna Whittell
Content Editors: Nel Alpysbayeva, Emma Fuller-Monk, Alexander Morris, Cameron Kursel, Hugh Remar, Melody Wang
Graphic Editors: Emalee Davidson, Harry Huh, Nathan Logan
PHD Advisor: Alexa Vaughn
2023-24
Managing Editors: Kinamee Rhodes, Kay Wright
Content Editors: Hunter Blackwell, Jenny Lee, Alexandra Hillard Ferreira
Graphic Editors: Peiyin Chou, Marcus Vazquez, Pingting Li
Digital Editor: Peter Tzuyuan Cheng
Events & Outreach Editor: Anna Whittell
Production Editor: Adam Cardenas
Finance Editor: Liuyi Ding
PHD Advisor: Alexa Vaughn
2022-23
Managing Editors: Sam Sherman, Zanira Sandhu
Content Editors: Kinamee Rhodes, Kay Wright, Julie Wong
Graphic Editors: Ezalden Alleheibat, Marcus Vazquez, Spencer Young
Digital Editor: Yitao Gu, John Wang
Events & Outreach Editor: Blane Hornung
Production & Finance Editor: Mengru Zhao
Assistant Editors: Marco Aguilar
2021-22
Managing Editors: Emmanuel Proussaloglou, Sunay Rajbhandari
Content Editors: Akana Jayewardene
Graphic Editors: Ezalden Alleheibat, Chris Rancourt, John Wang
Digital & Social Media Editor: Kinamee Rhodes
Events & Outreach Editor: Zanira Sandhu
Production Editor: Sam Sherman
Finance Editor: Ethan Ma
Assistant Editor: Ziwei Hou
PhD Advisor: Kurt Pelzer
2020-21
Managing Editors: Hannah Hortick, Phoebe Webster
Content Editors: Christina Rodriguez
Graphic Editors: Samantha Radice, Sunay Rajbhandari
Digital Editor: Casey Knudsen
Events & Outreach Editor: Akana Jayewardene
Production & Finance Editor: Ethan Ma
Assistant Editors: Emmanuel Proussaloglou
2019-20
Managing Editor: Rayne Laborde
Content Editors: Phoebe Webster, Christina Rodriguez
Graphic Editors: Georgia Pogas, Michael DePrez
Digital Editors: Casey Knudsen, Samantha Radice
Outreach Editor: Peiwei Zhang
Production & Finance Editor: Hannah Hortick
Events Editor: David Vasquez
Assistant Editor: Erica Luedtke
2018-19
Managing Editors: Summer Liu, Rayne Laborde
Content Editor: Connor Verteramo
Graphic Editors: Hong Bae Yang, Sammy Hasan
Digital Editors: Peiwei Zhang, Michael DePrez
Production Editor: Dongxiao Cheng
Events Editor: David Vasquez
Social Media Editor: Kevin MacDougall
Assistant Editors: Morgan Jacobs, Georgia Pogas, Phoebe Webster
PhD Advisor: Marko Icev
2017-18
Managing Editor: Jesse Hammer
Co-Content Editors: Aubrey Bauer, Heather Tipton
Co-Graphic Editors: Dongxiao Cheng, Hong Bae Yang
Digital Editor: Joyce Sin Ying Ip
Production Editor: Rayne Laborde
Events and Media Editor: Summer Yuanjun Liu
PhD Advisor: Will Davis
Assistant Editors: Sammy Hasan, Peiwei Zhang