Lecture: Brett Steele

State of the School

Brett Steele

Dean, USC School of Architecture

Brett Steele became the dean of USC School of Architecture and the holder of the Della & Harry MacDonald Dean’s Chair in Architecture on February 1, 2024.

Steele is an architectural scholar, teacher, writer, and leading voice on architecture, cities, and education. He has served on national and overseas arts and architecture commissions, juries, and policy planning initiatives. Steele’s academic work focuses on the modern and contemporary conditions of arts education and culture. He has written extensively on the expansive circumstances of today’s electronic computational design studios.

Steele served as the first architect appointed as dean of the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. Prior, Steele was the director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, where he led a decade-long transformation and expansion of one of the world’s most renowned architecture schools.  

A graduate of the AA School of Architecture, Steele is the first in his family to attend university. He advocates the role of the arts in higher education to promote social mobility and cross-cultural exchange.

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