Miroslava Brooks joins the faculty of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Miroslava Brooks as Assistant Professor in our Department of Architecture and Urban Design, effective January 2023.
Brooks is a practicing architect and a founding partner of FORMA, a design-driven architecture practice based in New York City and Los Angeles. Brooks’ academic interests consider what constitutes a disciplinary core of architecture in contemporary society and her design interests revolve around formal, organizational, and material strategies that merge art, technology, and ecology to create closer relationships between buildings and their surrounding environments.
Prior to her appointment with UCLA AUD, Brooks taught at the Yale University School of Architecture since 2014, becoming the youngest faculty member in the school’s history to receive the Professor King-Lui Wu Teaching Award. She also taught at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design since 2016 and, most recently, at the University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, where she was the Kwallek Endowed Chair Visiting Professor.
Brooks co-founded FORMA in 2018 with Daniel Markiewicz as a full-service architecture studio working across various scales and typologies. Through residential projects at a variety of scales they reconsider built forms of domesticity. Through character-driven civic spaces, FORMA explores new forms of collectivity manifested within institutional, cultural, and educational projects.
Brooks was born and grew up in Slovakia before moving to the U.S. to attend Ohio State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. She received a Master of Architecture from Yale University School of Architecture, where she was awarded the Gertraud A. Wood Fellowship and the William Wirt Winchester Travelling Fellowship, the school’s most prestigious award.
At AUD, Brooks will be leading graduate-level design studios for MArch candidates.
To learn more about Brooks and read the full appointment announcement, please visit AUD News, and please join me in welcoming Miroslava to the UCLA Arts community.
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