Undergraduate Study in Architecture, 1963–64

Craig Hodgetts, Creative Director of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture in Los Angeles, is a designer, teacher and scholar. With his partner, Hsin-Ming Fung, he has expanded the boundaries of conventional practice to integrate the worlds of the arts, technology and urbanity. He has produced award-winning master plans, urban designs, historic renovations, exhibition installations, cultural facilities, and industrial products. Known for employing an imaginative weave of high technology and story-telling to invigorate his designs, he produces an architecture that embraces contemporary ideology, information culture and evolving lifestyles. With a broad-ranging background in automotive design, theater, and architecture, grounded by Mid-Western traditions, Hodgetts brings dramatic concepts to life by means of an uncompromised application of construction methodology.

Hodgetts received his Master of Architecture with honors from Yale University School of Art and Architecture after undergraduate studies in architecture at UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design, automotive design at General Motors Institute, theater arts at San Francisco State, and fine arts at Oberlin College. Hodgetts was a Founding Dean of the School of Design at The California Institute of the Arts, and is currently a Professor of Architecture at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Known for his enthusiasm for interdisciplinary studies, he has also been active in curriculum development at the Art Center College of Design, where he created a prototype classroom for advanced studies in the Department of Environmental Design.

Hodgetts leads the design of his firm’s projects, which range from cultural and entertainment to institutional and civic facilities. Completed works include two branches of the Los Angeles Public Library, Hollywood Bowl’s new bandshell, Gershwin Gallery at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, American Cinemathèque at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, Mullin Sculpture Studio at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Current projects include California Academy of Sciences exhibitions in San Francisco, ImaginAsian Theater in Los Angeles, Menlo-Atherton High School Performing Arts Center in Menlo Park, and Yamano Gakuen Complex in Tokyo, Japan. His designs include many award-winning exhibitions, and Hodgetts represented the United States at the XII Venice Biennale. His work is widely published in national and international periodicals and numerous books. His firm has received over thirty awards, including the 2006 Gold Medal from the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.