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AKA: Otis Art Institute, Campus #2, Ahmanson Hall, Westchester, Los Angeles, CA ; Otis College of Art and Design, Goldsmith, Elaine and Bram, Campus, Ahmanson Hall, Westchester, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - office buildings; built works - public buildings - schools
Designers: Noyes, Eliot, Architect (firm); Eliot Noyes (architect)
Dates: constructed 1963-1964
7 stories, total floor area: 115,000 sq. ft.
This seven-story office building with its busy, "computer punch card" array of windows, was designed by IBM's in-house architect and product designer, Eliot Noyes (1910-1977). Noyes used pre-cast concrete panels to serve as sun breaks in this bright climate. He felt that each office's series of small windows would not admit an objectionable amount of sun into work spaces. Additionally, these thick panels also may have provided some acoustical insulation from the noise of jet engines at nearby LAX.
Tel: 310.665.6800 (2010);
The Otis College of Art and Design moved to this Westchester building, renamed "Ahmanson Hall" as the centerpiece of its new campus in 1997. The new Elaine and Bram Goldsmith Campus had two main buildings in 2010: Ahmanson and the Galef Fine Arts Center (2001).
PCAD id: 15861
