Urban images

The Luskin School of Public Affairs building at UCLA wasn't the most inspiring place for a long time. It was drab and it felt like the hand-me-down place it was (it was the Anderson School of Management's building before they moved to their new and really fancy digs nearby).

A big donation to the school a few years ago started the ball rolling in terms of renovating and remodeling major parts of the building. Now the classrooms are sleek and high-tech, the student lounge doesn't look like it's from an undergrad dorm in the 80s, and the research centers are comfortable spaces where you want to go in to work.

My favorite addition, however, is the fantastic art that's gone up on the walls throughout the building. The artist is Yasmine Diaz, who is also a staff person at the Lewis Center. She does oil painting as well as photography and captures urban scenes from cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Rome, and Buenos Aires - what she calls "urban studies of abstracted realism."



(via yasminediaz.com)

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