Founded in 2015, POOL is the student publication of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Architecture and Urban Design. POOL is driven by an interest in expanding the definition of architectural work that, in a culture of high-volume content exchange, considers curation as a primary form of cultural production and contends that the syllabus, the archive, and the aggregator are all valid forms of architectural work that are encouraged in POOL. Furthermore, POOL seeks experimentation within its interfaces of 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 has successfully published ten issues—Table, Rules, Party, Nostalgia, Simulation, Plant, Float, Residue, LOOP, and Flotsam.

POOL is curated by a dedicated team of student volunteers from University of California, Los Angeles’s Architecture and Urban Design Graduate Program. From design to content to distribution, POOL’s digital content and print editions are produced entirely in-house by an editorial team of graduate students. POOL takes advantage of its position within the institution to both reflect and challenge UCLA’s culture, notable for its ability to reformulate the ways in which design, theoretical discourse, and technology interact.

Founded in 2015, POOL is the student magazine of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of California, Los Angeles. POOL is driven by an interest in an expanding the definition of architectural work that considers curation as an important form of cultural production. Following this, POOL contends that the syllabus, the archive, and the aggregator are all valid forms of architectural work that are welcomed and encouraged in the publication. POOL is a site of this type of work, experimenting with the interface between its three primary platforms: event, digital, and print. Events and an ongoing digital publication act not only as productive indicators of relevant themes but also feed into an annual print edition. POOL sees 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.