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Los Angeles architects Allison and Rible designed this first building in what was to have been a $10 million ensemble of buildings for the College of Engineering at UCLA. According to an article in the Architectural Record (10/1948): "...it is the first major campus building whose design departs from the university's romanesque tradition. The faculty, aware that there is no way of forecasting the kind ot size of problem with which the modern engineering school will be confronted, requested the utmost in flexibility." (See "Engineering Building, Unit A," Architectural Record (Western Edition), 104:4, 10/1948, p. 32-3.) The biggest labs in the building were arrayed on the building's west side, as no requirements for direct sunlight were needed. Ground floor windows were covered by metal horizontal louvers.

This first unit of a larger collection of engineering buildings had three stories with a glazed, separately articulated stair tower on one end. The tower was differentiated from the rest of the building by its taller height and brick skin. The mass of the rest of the building appeared to have enameled metal panels covering it.

PCAD id: 15382