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The CCS campus is made up of two locations, the Walter and Josephine Ford Campus and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, just one mile apart and accessible via a campus shuttle.
- Inside The A. Alfred Taubman Center For Design Education
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- Rebuilding Manufacturing at Shinola
- Forming Connections and Community Space in Detroit
The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, née the Argonaut Building, is at the heart of this resilient energy. Built in 1928, the 760,000-square-foot building was designed by Albert Kahn for General Motors as a research and engineering plant. Later, it housed the first automotive design studio under Harley Earl. With innovation part of its...
Beginning on the ground floor, there’s the Detroit Creative Corridor Center, or DC3, an economic development partnership between Business Leaders for Michigan and the College for Creative Studies (CCS).Their mission is to offer support to the city’s creative community. Matthew Clayson, the organization’s executive director, explains how the concept...
On the 5th floor is Shinola, whose story is not only important to Detroit but an example for the rest of the country as well. What started almost as joke—“You don’t know shit from Shinola”—became a full-fledged company determined to make made-in-the-USA products both prominent and financially viable. With both its industrious history and regenerati...
There are many other developments in the city that show that Detroit is dealing with its challenges by utilizing its own resources. The recent redesign of Kresge Court at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) is another excellent example. Amid the museum’s fight to stay afloat , the DIA managed to engage local firm Patrick Thompson Design,and fundrai...
The College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit, US, has inaugurated the A Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, an integrated educational community focused on art and design.
Sep 22, 2009 · The Taubman Center will be the second campus site for the College, and is set to house CCS’s five undergraduate design departments as well as its new Master of Fine Arts degree programs in...
The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education (Taubman Center) has undergone a dramatic transformation: having once housed automotive ofices and laboratories, it now serves as a campus for the College for Creative Studies (CCS) and other users.
Feb 24, 2020 · The Taubman Center is home to the College’s five undergraduate design departments, graduate degree programs in design and transportation design and the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies, an art and design charter school for middle and high school students.
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Designed by Albert Kahn as General Motors’ Engineering and Design Center, it is now home to the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education, a mixed-use educational complex housing offices for non-profit organizations, a business accelerator, shared public spaces, academic space and student housing for CCS’ undergraduate/graduate design ...
