From AA to UCLA

Steele has served as the AA's director since 2005, where he has underseen numerous projects: expanding the AA’s historic Bedford Square home; realizing a new rural campus in Dorset; launching the Digital Prototyping Lab; and creating new full-time MSc & MPhil graduate courses and a new PhD by Design program.

The American-born architect, educator and author will oversee, per UCLA: "the school’s leading programs in art; architecture and urban design; design and media arts; and world arts and cultures and dance; as well as the school’s two acclaimed museums — the Fowler and Hammer museums — and the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA."

Steele will assume his post in August 2017, replacing David Roussève, who has served as interim dean since 2015.