POOL Magazine is curated by a dedicated team of students from UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design. From design to content to distribution, POOL's digital and print editions are produced entirely in-house by an editorial team of 10–15 graduate students. This year, POOL expanded its undergraduate cohort, bringing the total editorial team to 20 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