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Studio Gang unveils a new 'creative ecosystem' for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco

2024-11-07T17:42:00-05:00

The wait is over for followers of Studio Gang’s campus expansion for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. The project, which was first announced in late 2016, establishes an overlapping "creative ecosystem" inside the footprint of the school's existing campus located in the heart of the city’s Design District.

Image courtesy Jason O'Rear

The program adds a total of 82,305 square feet of space in the form of two hybrid mass timber pavilions set on top of a concrete slab base and sheltering both a makers yard area and other conditioned outdoor spaces used for fabricating and multidisciplinary design education.

Image courtesy Jason O'Rear

The first, 24,300-square-foot Hooper Pavilion includes 48 art studios worth a total of 5,300 square feet. Along with those, there is a new 2,100-square-foot gallery for the exhibition students’ work, small lounge, another classroom space, and a 1,100-square-foot lecture hall with seating for up to 60 people.

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Gensler and Amazon among $4.7 million donors to California College of the Arts supporting diversity and innovation

2022-10-28T11:22:00-04:00

Gensler and Amazon are among the donors who have gifted $4.7 million to the California College of the Arts (CCA). The funds will be used to support diversity, equity, and innovation in the arts and design field.

CCA received a $1 million gift from the Gensler family and an additional $1 million gift from Gensler as a practice; donations which will establish the M. Arthur Gensler Jr. Center for Design Excellence. According to the college, the newly-established center will “support and enrich learning, teaching, and research in CCA’s Architecture Division” with a focus on supporting students from diverse backgrounds through “tuition scholarships, mentoring, and career development support.”

The donation will extend over ten years, with the first cohort of Gensler Center scholarship recipients set to receive awards this year.

The remaining $2.7 million in donations to the CCA was received from Amazon ...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Spring '20

2020-02-06T17:09:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2020

A new school term means it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The California College of the Arts' Spring '20 architecture event series features a poster that becomes interactive by downloading the "Artivive" app and hovering the app's camera over it.

CCA Architecture recently kicked off their spring event series with lectures by Anna Puigjaner and then Sam Jacob. Upcoming speakers include Mimi Hoang, Madeline Schwartzman, Ana Maria Leon, Nader Tehrani, Ashley Bigham & Erik Herrmann, Mario Gooden, Laurel Broughton, and Joanna Zylinska.

Backside of CCA Architecture's Spring '20 poster...

CCA's Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab Launches in San Francisco Bay

2019-12-27T14:14:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by California College of the Arts (CCA)

In August 2019, California College of the Arts (CCA) Architectural Ecologies Lab, one of five research and teaching labs in CCA’s Architecture Division, launched the Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab in San Francisco Bay. The Float Lab, a cutting-edge prototype for an ecologically productive floating breakwater, builds on five years of applied research at CCA. It was initiated in the college’s integrated building design studios, in which students developed architectural proposals questioning traditional boundaries between land and water.

Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab on CCA's back lot prior to deployment. CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab

Buoyant Ecologies Float Lab, CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab

Merging expertise from design, advanced digital manufacturing, and marine ecology, the Float Lab imagines a new kind of architecture for climate adaptation. Conceived as a link in a chain of bean-shaped, wave-attenuating floating ...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Fall '19

2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2019

With a new school year already here, it's time for Archinect's latest edition of Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The California College of the Arts' architecture lecture series for Fall '19 kicks off with the exhibition, “Perspectivas: We the City - Latinos in Architecture”, which officially opens on September 19. Lectures will be given by Diego Ricalde, Peggy Deamer, Jia Gu, Ana Arriola, Marc J Neveu, Clark Thenhaus, Andrew Kudless, and Ana Miljacki.

Other upcoming events this semester include the “Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space” gallery talk, the Design Earth Lecture, the “Condemned Buildings and Other Stories:...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Spring '19

2019-01-22T13:46:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Spring 2019

It's time for Archinect's latest Get Lectured, an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back regularly to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

The California College of the Arts' Spring '19 architecture lecture series will start off with the Possible Mediums book launch and dialogue on January 28. This semester's lineup also includes David Gissen, Barbara Bestor, Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott, Meejin Yoon, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Rahul Mehrotra, and more.

Other upcoming events are a film screening of “Owned: A Tale of Two Americas” and a Q&A with the film's director Giorgio Angelini; a conversation highlighting the digital release of Design Book Review, and The Ecopoesis project launch with a keynote lecture f...

Studio Gang to design new, unified campus for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco

2016-12-12T13:45:00-05:00

Studio Gang has beat out Allied Works and Michael Maltzan to win a commission to design an expanded art and design campus for the California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. The decision follows a two-year search and planning process.

Currently, the CCA campus is split between two sites in San Francisco and Oakland. The new unified campus, which will extend on to a 2.4 acre site adjacent to the existing San Francisco campus, will house all of the school’s programs. “We are excited to discover with CCA the possibilities that a unified campus in San Francisco presents for the future of art teaching, learning, and making,” said founding principal Jeanne Gang in a press statement.

Major components of the plan include continuing the school’s tradition of sustainable building practices as well as creating affordable student housing. In recent years, rent in San Francisco has become increasingly unaffordable for most young people. CCA plans to add twice the amount of beds it curre...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Fall '15

2015-09-16T17:53:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is ready for another school year. Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Our next featured poster comes from the California College of the Arts, Architecture Division.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Check out their upcoming events below. Unless noted otherwise, lectures start at 7 p.m. in Timken Lecture Hall: 1111 Eighth St, San Francisco. Free and open to the public.

Sept 21
WHAT’S NEXT AT WORK Forum
Moderated by Katherine Lambert of CCA, featuring:
Aaron Taylor Harvey, Airbnb Environments
Emily Ma, Google[x]
Primo Orpilla, Studio O+A

Sept 28
THOM MAYNE / Morphosis

Oct 12
KAI-UWE BERGMANN / BIG

Oct 19
STEVEN MILLER / Steven Miller Design Studio and The N...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Spring '15

2015-02-20T19:16:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter-Spring 2015

Archinect's Get Lectured is back in session! Get Lectured is an ongoing series where we feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. Check back frequently to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Printed in bright fluorescent ink, the next poster features the Spring '15 Architecture + Interior Architecture lecture series at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Listed below are upcoming events only. Note each event's time + location. Free and open to the public.

Feb 23
7-9 pm
Khoi Vo / Savannah College of Art and Design
at Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus

Mar 2
7-9 pm
Tina Manis / Tina Manis Associates
at Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco Campus

Mar 12
4 pm
Diffuse Density: Making Housing Affordable Symposium
at SPUR: 654 Mis...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts, Fall '14

2014-09-04T14:02:00-04:00

Say hello to another edition of Archinect's Get Lectured! As a refresher, we'll be featuring a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current term. If you're not doing so already, be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's poster comes from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Speakers include Neeraj Bhatia, Elena Manferdini, Jorge Otero-Pailos, and David Benjamin of The Living -- who designed the Hy-Fi Tower at MoMA PS1.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Unless noted**, lectures begin at 7 pm in Timken Lecture Hall at the CCA San Francisco campus. All events free and open to the public.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 3
Chip Lord & Curtis Schreier / Ant Farm; UC Santa Cruz

Sept. 15
Neeraj Bhatia / InfraNet Lab; The Open Workshop; CCA Urban Works Agency San Francisco

Sept. 22
Frida Escobedo / Taller Frida Escobedo - Mexico City

OCTOBER

Oct. 6
Interior ...

Get Lectured: CCA, Spring '14

2014-01-20T12:49:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series--and their snazzy posters--for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's poster features the Architecture and Interior Design Lecture Series at the California College of the Arts.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Unless otherwise noted**, lectures will take place at 7:00 p.m. in the Timken Lecture Hall, CCA San Francisco Campus: 1111 Eighth St (at 16th and Wisconsin)

ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES

Jan 23
12:00 p.m.**
Bjarke Ingels / Bjarke Ingels Group - Copenhagen

Jan 27
Beatriz Colomina / Princeton University

Feb 12
Natalie Jeremijenko / New York University

Feb 24
Aaron Betsky / Cinci...

Get Lectured: California College of the Arts Fall '13

2013-09-13T11:46:00-04:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Fall 2013

Happy Friday! Here on Archinect we recently launched "Get Lectured", where we'll feature a school's lecture series--along with their snazzy posters--for the current season. Check back regularly to stay up-to-date and mark your calendars for any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Today's series is from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.

Want to share your school's lecture series? Send us your school's lecture series poster and details to connect@archinect.com.

Below are Architecture and Interior Design Lecture Events only, as listed on the poster.
(Interior Design events will be marked with ** )

Unless noted, all events will be held at Timken Lecture Hall at 7:00 pm

SEPTEMBER

September 23
Jing Liu / Solid Objectives (SO-IL)

OCTOBER

October 7**
Jason Logan and Matthew Johnson / LOJO

October 12
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Test Sites: Experiments in the History of Space
(Learn more about this symposium...

URBANlab at California College of the Arts

2012-01-19T17:47:00-05:00

Academic institutions have a mandate to contribute to public knowledge, but the structures that support the transfer and dissemination of research, and the application of research within urban design practice, are often weak. There is a widening gap between what happens within the academy and what happens on the ground in cities — often a retrograde, generic and ad hoc agglomeration of politically or financially motivated initiatives.

Places interviews Ila Berman, director of architecture at the California College of the Arts, and Mona El Khafif, project coordinator of URBANlab, about research + design initiatives at the lab. The feature includes a slideshow of faculty and student work, including design proposals for projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jerusalem, and Tianjin.

This is the second installment in an ongoing series of profiles of university-based design centers. Previously: Stephen Luoni and the University of Arkansas Community Design Center.