Michael Maltzan’s Inner-City Arts Campus

Michael Maltzan’s Inner-City Arts Campus is another example of design put to good use. The Inner City Arts Project inherited an abandoned body shop in the middle of Skid Row, and turned it into center where, as Maltzan describes, "every space is a teachable moment." The campus was built as an open air village, in which each building has its own function, with a central courtyard for student functions and meetings. In the eyes of the designers, this design functions to promote a sense of role and responsibility to the community. Students are engaged not only with those of like minds and interests, but with the rest of the student community.

Maltzan sees the campus as an agent for positive change. “I hope that people get that architecture is not only great form, but the way we structure our relationship to the way that we live in the city, and to find forms that can evolve as the city changes is important and is essential for the city to continue to emerge.”

Designers Michael Maltzan and Nancy Goslee Power have donated their time and efforts to this project.



Click here for more information on the Inner City Arts Campus on Bustler.com.
All Photos from Iwan Baan (www.iwan.com)