Places to Go
Advocacy Center
919 Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
The Advocacy Center opened its doors in the fall of 2002 at a ceremony attended by Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy. This striking terra-cotta building is equipped with all of the latest in instructional media, and it houses two courtrooms, an Ethical Advocacy classroom and the offices for the Moot Court and Trial Advocacy teams. At the building’s entrance is the Minyard Tower. “French architect Jean Nouvel, later another Pritzker Prize winner, designed the tower at Gehry’s invitation. In its polished stainless steel you catch endless mirrored fragments of surrounding buildings.” One of the best views of the campus is from inside the top floor of the tower.
Ahmanson Auditorium
7200-7238 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
Located in University Hall room 1000, across from Einsten Bros. Bagels on the first floor.
Alumni Mall
1 Loyola Marymount University Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90045, USA
Alumni Mall is the walkway leading from the flagpoles on Loyola Blvd. to Regents Terrace near Sunken Garden.
Alumni Mall Flag Poles
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
The flagpoles are located at the southern edge of Alumni Mall, near the Loyola Blvd. entrance.
Barnelle Theatre
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
The Virginia Barnelle Theatre is a sixty-seat black box used for experimental, edgy work that requires a more intimate setting. The tiered seating surrounds the performance space on three sides. Several shows are performed in the Barnelle every term. The space accommodates student and faculty-directed work and a New Works Festival.
Bell Tower Lawn
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Grassy area on the east side of Sacred Heart Chapel, nearest the bell tower.
Broccoli Theater
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Fall 2021 saw the opening of the Howard B. Fitzpatrick Pavilion, an outstanding addition to SFTV's already industry-leading facilities. With the addition of the Pavilion came Broccoli Theater. A state-of-the-art, 86-seat theater equipped with 4k projection screen, Broccoli Theater serves as an ideal venue for student project screenings, as well as showings for films from which students and the community can learn and experience in an academic space.
Burns Academic Center
919 Albany St., Los Angeles, CA 90015
“Loyola Law School’s largest building, Burns is a bright yellow four-story box split in two by a dark green central staircase that snakes its way to the top and ends in a glass atrium with a classical pediment.” Through the atrium glass you catch vivid colors of a floor-to-ceiling bas relief, painted by Los Angeles muralist Kent Twitchell based on a painting by Jim Morphesis, which depicts the myth of the fall of Icarus. The work represents human striving for justice, inevitable human failure and the equally inevitable renewal of human hope—all which are crucial components of the law school experience. Two other staircases descend the façade on either end of the Burns Building. Gehry explains the purpose behind this design. “I took the stairways that would normally have been inside and spilled them onto the outside of the building with the idea that it would animate the façade and bring people out onto the front of the building, animating the building with human beings. When classes break, you see the front of the building covered with people running up and down the stairs. That complements the people walking around in the space below and gives it a lot more excitement.” The Burns building houses the Dean's Office, the cafeteria, faculty and staff offices and the student lounge. On the second floor of the building is an oil painting of the man for whom the building is named. Fritz Burns was a noted real estate developer and philanthropist. Through his relationship with Joe Rawlinson '58, he developed a great fondness for Loyola Law School and was a generous supporter of the Law School for many years until his death in 1979.