CCA Expanded
Our state-of-the-art learning, making, and teaching environment connects students and disciplines like never before.
CCA is the action-oriented art and design school in San Francisco. We've helped shape the Bay Area cultural landscape for nearly 120 years, and our newly expanded campus includes 82,305 square feet of space for teaching, making, and exhibiting art. The new addition brings together more than 30 academic programs and disciplines, student housing and dining, and interdisciplinary learning on one campus in San Francisco's burgeoning art and design district. Architecture, design, art, and writing students learn together in the city's most exciting cultural neighborhood alongside galleries, design studios, and technology companies.
A connected campus
Classrooms and studios for every program are now located together in San Francisco, offering even more crossover opportunities for the talented artists and designers to learn from faculty—and each other. Our students now live, learn, eat, study, and relax on our residential campus, which includes two residence halls, Founders Hall and Blattner Hall.
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A view from the Hooper Pavilion.
CCA’s innovative new building in San Francisco extends our main campus, featuring a dynamic, multilayered hub of indoor-outdoor makerspaces, art studios, and social areas, connected by a terraced landscape offering stunning views and ample space for collaboration and creativity. Our extension offers:
- Abundant shared green spaces
- Interactive maker yards
- Adaptable spaces to create
- Gallery space
- A lecture hall
- More opportunities for interdisciplinary learning
Sustainability at the forefront
Designed by a team led by award-winning architect Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang, the open, transparent design will connect our programs in exciting new ways. Built with sustainable features and amenities, the lower level of Double Ground includes shops, studios, and labs which open into shared maker yards. The upper level features a park-like atmosphere with green space and places to gather, adjacent to CCA's main campus building.
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Nov. 26, 2024
Time to grind 😬 A (realistic) day in the life of a @ccafilm major where Taylor Sanford gets ready to complete his senior thesis project.
Nov. 25, 2024
Introducing our new MAAD Architectural Ecologies concentration—a cutting-edge, STEM-designated, one-year program for architects ready to shape a sustainable future. The program explores how designers organize matter and energy toward the production of meaningful environments that can help mitigate and adapt to climate change.
This Architectural Ecologies specialization expands CCA’s existing advanced architectural design offerings in Digital Craft, Urban Works, and History/Theory/Experiments.
Learn more about the program and application here: cca.edu/MAAD
Nov. 22, 2024
Pearl Sequeira (Graduate Interaction Design) takes us along at last Saturday’s Art & Crafts Fair hosted by @ccacampuslife_.
Nov. 19, 2024
We see the vision! 📸 🔥 First year student Olivia Fang (Film) takes us behind the scenes on a final project for the @ccaphotoprogram course ‘Introduction to Black & White.’ In this course, students learn how to use different cameras, how to work with film,and how to translate personal vision into effective imagery.
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