Art Center College of Design South Campus

Pasadena, CA | 1 and 2 stories | 93,410 sq ft

The Art Center College of Design South Campus is a complex of six buildings ranging from 1- to 2-story structures. Originally built in the 1940s as McDonald Douglas Aircraft’s wind tunnel testing facility, it is the home of Art Center’s Public Education Programs and includes an Exhibition Hall, the Graduate Fine Arts Program, and the Art Center Print Shop and Archetype Press. The Alexander and Adelaide Hixon Courtyard provides a unique creative entrance to exhibit outdoor sculpture and other fine art for the complex. The College’s 14,600-square-foot Exhibition Hall is the centerpiece of the South Raymond facility as a venue destination for new art and design in the region. The Graduate Fine Art Complex is a 13,500-square-foot facility comprised of studios, galleries, project rooms, computers, shops, archive space, and offices. Completing the space is a 3,000-square-foot Art Center Print Shop and Archetype Press, a traditional letterpress facility for Art Center degree and Public Education students that was established in 1989 with the foundry type collection of Los Angeles Typographer and printer, Vernon Simpson.