Careers

The department's focus is on design, rather than craft, in order to train future designers for communication and collaboration with builders, craftsmen, and artisans working in any scale, material or technique. We provide graduates with skills necessary to enter any of its allied design fields. In addition, many A/L/I students work in professional architecture, landscape or interior design offices while training in the program. Graduates are well prepared to pursue advanced degrees such as Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture or Master of Interior Architecture, or may choose to become licensed architects through work experience and testing in California, with no additional education. A/L/I graduates receive two years credit towards the total eight years of combined education and/or practice required to sit for the Architectural Registration Exam (A.R.E.) and California Supplemental Exam (C.S.E.).

A/L/I alumni pursue careers in all three fields addressed by the department, as well as specialized areas of these fields including Architecture, Interior Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Design, Architectural Lighting Design, Aquatic Environmental Design, Experience Design (exhibits, expos, museums, themed environments) and Entertainment Design (set, production, stage/show).

Alumni: Boo Jang (07) has been working for Bennitt & Mitchell, an international landscape architecture firm, since 2005, when she was a junior. David Orkand (04) received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 2007 and is pursuing a Doctoral Research Fellowship at TIT while working for Atelier Bow-Wow, an internationally known architecture firm based Tokyo. Felicia Martin (02) received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale in 2009 and is working for Franciso Mangado Estudio in Pamplona, Spain. Patrick Ngo (05) received his Master of Architecture from ULCA in 2008 and is working with Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York. Jennifer Doran (07) has been a Lighting Designer since graduation, and has been practicing with LIGHTINGDESIGNALLIANCE since 2008. Gary Garcia (08) and Natalia Polunina (07) both earned Master of Landscape Architecture degrees in spring 2011: Gary from the University of Southern California (USC) and Natalia from Harvard. Dolly Davis (03) received her Master of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), after only two years of study through one of our +2 Master of Architecture agreements. MaiHoua Vang (10) was recently hired at BUILT, Inc. in Los Angeles. Several Architecture/Landscape/Interiors alumni began Master of Architecture studies this fall: Sam Tanis (11) at UIC, Justin Kang (11) at the USC and Joem Sanez (10) at Columbia University, New York.

Selected employers include:

Ellerbe Beckett, San Francisco
Bennitt + Mitchell, Los Angeles
GRAFT LLC, Los Angeles
Chang Jo Architects, Seoul
L I G H T I N G D E S I G N A L L I A N C E, Long Beach
Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos, Madrid
Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP, Los Angeles
Shubin + Donaldson Architects, Santa Barbara
Clive Wilkinson Architects, Los Angeles
WOLCOTT ARCHITECTURE | INTERIORS, Culver City