Facilities
College for Creative Studies
The CCS campus totals 16 acres, with approximately 1.5 million square feet of space. Located in midtown Detroit, the College is made up to two sites, the Walter and Josephine Ford Campus and the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education.
Walter & Josephine Ford Campus
- Kresge-Ford Building
- Walter B. Ford II Building
- Manoogian Visual Resource Center
- Josephine F. Ford Sculpture Garden
- Yamasaki Building
- Art Centre Building
Kresge-Ford Building
The Kresge-Ford Building, was completed in 1975 and was a major addition to the College's classroom, studio and office space. Currently the building houses the Art Education, Crafts, Fine Arts, Liberal Arts and Photography departments. The Arts & Crafts Cafe, two student lounges and the Student Success Center are also located here.
- Fully equipped shops
- Manually operated presses
- Casting with lost wax process
- Pours: Iron/bronze/aluminum
- Ceramic shell casting
- Resin bonded sand casting
- Casting area
- Stake and machine room
- Buffing room
- Electroforming/anodizing room
- Tig Welder
- Rofin/starweld laser welder
- State-of-the-art furnaces
- Double-ended gloryhole
- Slumping & fusing kilns
- Oxy torches & garage
- Casting & annealing kilns
- Cold work shop
- 4 solid fuel forges with anvils and tools
- 2 gas forges with anvils and tools
- 3 leg vices
- 2 swadge blocks
- 75 lb air power hammer
- 60 lb Treadle hammer
- AVL & computer-generated looms
- Gas ranges & hoods
- Sewing room
- Weaving room
- Stock burners
- Electric indoor kilns
- Plaster mold-making room
- Shop-bot CNC tile carver
- Decal machine
- Woodfire Anagama kiln
- Covered exterior kilns
- Car kiln
- Soda, salt, reduction & Raku kilns
- Hand-throwing studio
- Wheel-casting studio
- Slip-casting studio
- Clay-mixing studio
- Glazing room
- European "Blaauw" Kiln
- Fully equipped wood shop
- Large darkrooms
- Dry mount room
- Alternative processes lab
- Computer labs
- Large-scale printers
- Fully equipped studios
- Photo equipment
Walter B. Ford II Building
The Walter B. Ford II Building, is a state-of-the art facility wired with a single digital network to carry voice, data and video. The building houses the Entertainment Arts, Illustration and Foundation departments and incorporates high-tech flexible classrooms with both traditional and computer workstations and a 250-seat auditorium equipped with LCD and HD projectors, VHS/DVD/Blu-ray technology and 7.1 surround sound. In addition, the building also provides space on each floor for the exhibition of student work and includes numerous traditional animation labs, "The Stage" - a large production studio, a recording room and sound studios, figure & anatomy dry studios and an Oxberry.
- Stop-motion lab
- Computer labs with Wacom tablets
- Traditional animation labs
- "The Stage" Production studio
- Figure & anatomy dry studio
- Multipurpose studio
- Digital studio with Mac desktops
- Studio B & Sound Studio
- Audio/Visual Center
- Daylight Studio
- Oxberry
- Seamless walls (for video)
- Final Cut studio
- Traditional sound room
- Sound-contained room
- Recording room
- 2 professional mixing rooms
- Satellite bookstore
- 7.1 surround sound
- LCD projector
- HD projector
- VHS/DVD player
- Blu-ray player
- 2 podiums with touch-screen controls and VHS/DVD combo players
Manoogian Visual Resource Center
In 1997 the Manoogian Visual Resource Center was added to the campus. This building currently houses the college's Library and Center Galleries.
- More than 50,000 volumes in print, 90% of which are devoted to art and design
- 274 periodicals from worldwide sources
- More than 50 electronic databases for research including the Gnomon Workshop subscription
- More than 2,500 DVDs
- A digital database (Luna web) of more than 35,000 images for teaching and research
- Alumni & Faculty Hall
- Main gallery
- Permanent gallery collection
- Revolving student exhibition
Josephine F. Ford Sculpture Garden
A collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts, the park-like sculpture garden features a number of works on permanent loan from the collection of the DIA. The contributions of the DIA include:
- Alexander Calder’s 1967 “The X and its Tails”
- Beverly Pepper’s 1983 “Normanno Wedge”
- Richard Serra’s 1971 “Mozarabe”
- Reuben Nakian’s 1964-66 “Goddess of the Golden Thighs”
- Richard Nonas’ 1997 “Hip and Spine (Stone Chair Setting)”
- Etienne-Martin’s 1946 “Grand Couple”
- Albert Paley’s 1992 “Untitled”
- Anthony Caro’s 1971 “Up Front”
- Michael D. Hall’s 1972 “Ashtabula”
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon's 1914 "Le Cheval Majeur (The Grand Horse)"
- George Rickey's 1971 "Two Lines Oblique Down"
Yamasaki Building
The Yamasaki Building is the oldest building on campus, as it was the only building in the fall of 1958 when the School (not yet a college) moved to 245 East Kirby. Designed by Minoru Yamasaki, the building is now a full student service center, housing Academic Advising and Registration, Business Services, a satellite Bookstore, Career Services, Financial Aid, International Student Services, Multicultural Affairs, Personal Counseling and Student Affairs. Information Technology Services and Human Resources are also located in the Yamasaki Building.
Art Centre Building
The Art Centre Building (ACB) is one of CCS's two locations for student housing. The ACB offers 12 floors of suite-style accommodations for students.
- Apartment-style dorm rooms
- Fitness room
- Laundry room
- Spray room
A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education
Floors 1-4
Floors 1-4 of the Taubman Center house the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies, a charter art and design middle and high school. Additionally, there are several other services available to students and the community. The Detroit Creative Cooridor Center is located on the first floor in addition to the Valade Family Gallery, the Argonaut Grill, Tim Hortons and the College's main Bookstore.
- 3,000 square feet of retail space
- Text books
- School supplies
- Art materials
- Computer supplies
- Snacks
- CCS clothing & memorabilia
- TC Café
- Tim Horton’s
- Argonaut Grill
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The DC3 supports the growth of Detroit's creative economy through business acceleration and attraction services and signature programming tailored specifically to creative professionals.
- Middle & high school
- Grades 6-10
- Curriculum with a strong emphasis on art & design
- Bob & Ellen Thompson Gymnasium
- Valade Family Gallery
Floor 6
The Community Arts Partnerships and Precollege & Continuing Studies Offices are located on the 6th floor of the Taubman Center with the College's Imaging Center and 24/7 Commuter Lounge and Computer Lab.
- 15 Mac & 5 PC desktops
- Scanners
- Black & white printers
- Xerox color printer
- Comfy chairs
- Work tables
- Pool table
- Television
- High-end, full-color prints
- High-end, mono-color prints
- Eight-color, large-format prints
- Less expensive rate
- Digital camera/recorder rentals
- Drawing tablet rentals
Floor 8
Floor 8 includes the Advertising:Copywriting, Advertising Design and Graphic Design departments in addition to loft-style student housing.
- Mac desktops
- Scanners
- Black & white printers
- Loft-style rooms
- "Dirty room" workspace
- Laundry facilities
- Community room
- Fitness room
- Student hub
- Shared production area
- Xerox Phaser color duplexing printer
Floor 9
CCS's Graduate Programs in Interdisciplinary Design and Transportation Design and undergraduate Interior Design and Product Design departments are located on floor 9. Additionally, the Color and Materials Library, a unique collection of more than 2,300 volumes focused on trends forecasting, sustainable materials and design is available to students. Student housing is also offered on this floor.
- More than 2,300 volumes focused on color trends forecasting, sustainable materials and design
- More than 3,000 materials
- Material Connexion database
- 70 periodicals primarily focused on materials, fashion and design
- Loft-style rooms
- "Dirty room" workspace
- Laundry facilities
- Community room
- Game room
- Student hub
Floor 10
Floor 10 includes the Product Design and Transportation Design departments in addition to loft-style student housing.
- Loft-style rooms
- "Dirty room" workspace
- Laundry facilities
- Meeting room
- Student hub
Floor 11
The 11th floor of the Taubman Center houses the College's Transportation Design studio spaces, rapid prototyping equipment, a CNC five access mill and ventillated spray booth. Additionally, the College's Benson & Edith Ford Conference Center is located on this level.
- Car-sized ventilated spray booth
- Rapid prototyping equipment
- CNC five access mill
- Laser cutter
- Clay modeling studio
- Five 3D printers
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16,000-square-feet including the Auditorium and the Conference Center Breakout Rooms
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3,500-square-foot Prefunction Gallery perfect receptions and gatherings
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Freight elevator that accommodates full size vehicles
