Art Center Staying Put.Trustees of the Art Center College of Design Art Center built its reputation as a vocational school, essentially, preparing returning GIs for work in the commercial arts fields. It has traditionally maintained a strong "real-world" focus, emphasizing craftsmanship, technique, and professionalism while somewhat de-emphasizing theory. rejected an offer to relocate their school to downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or and instead will expand their operations in Pasadena. Art Center's decision is a setback for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. civic leaders who had wooed the school for nearly a year as part of an effort to revive the city's downtown. Art Center, whose graduates are leaders in automotive and other commercial design fields, would have been part of a growing cluster of educational and cultural institutions that have relocated or expanded downtown in recent years. The 14-member Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. voted unanimously to expand the existing facilities on the school's 175-acre hillside campus near the Rose Bowl and to build a Frank Gehry-designed satellite facility in a more commercial part of Pasadena. |
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