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Thursday, April 24, 2008 – The Unforgiving Modern
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)

The Otis College of Art and Design

9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)

This place began in 1918 when Los Angeles Times founder Harrison Gray Otis bequeathed his MacArthur Park property for Los Angeles' first public art college – and now they have three campuses. This is five-acre Elaine and Bram Goldsmith main campus, about a mile inland the Pacific Ocean, just north of LAX.  That's close to galleries, museums, and artists' studios, but near enough to film, digital imaging, and toy companies, like Mattel, just south of the airport.

The school was originally named the Otis Art Institute.  From 1978 through 1991 it was affiliated with New York's Parsons School of Design – it was known as Otis-Parsons (the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design). That allowed students to spend a semester or more at the Parsons schools in New York and Paris, but in 1991, Otis became independent and just the Otis College of Art and Design.

What stands out on campus is the Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center – that's why it has the "punch card" design.  Call it architectural humor.  IBM moved out and, in 1997, Otis moved in. Inside you'll find the departments for interactive product design, toy design, digital media, communication arts, architecture/landscape/interiors, and the liberal arts and sciences departments.

The "Punch Card Building" –
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
Kathleen Ahmanson Hall - designed by architect Eliot Noyes in 1963 to house an IBM research center, with its "punch card" design, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester) - negative print

The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, completed in 2002, is less brutal.
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)
The Galef Center for Fine Arts and Ben Maltz Gallery, designed by Frederick Fisher and Partners, and completed in 2002, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard, Los Angeles (Westchester)

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.
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