Meet at 1600 S. State Street, at the Media Production Center to depart on your tours. Tours will NOT depart from the Tour Center at 600 S. Michigan Avenue.
About The Media Production Center
The Media Production Center, the college's first new-construction
building in its 120-year history, is now open! The 35,500-square-foot
facility, designed by Studio Gang Architects, provides adaptable,
state-of-the-art facilities including two film production soundstages,
a motion-capture studio, digital labs, animating suites, a fabrication
shop, and classrooms.
The MPC is the first educational facility of its
kind anywhere, designed from the ground up to foster cross-disciplinary
collaboration, a manifestation of the innovative model of arts and
media education that the college has been developing for years. "I've
always thought that one of our guiding principles is the collaborative
nature of our disciplines," says Doreen Bartoni, dean of the School of
Media Arts. "At the end of the day, the building is the container in
which our philosophy of education, to have students 'author the culture
of their times,' can really take root."
Environmental sustainability is important to the
college, which will apply for LEED certification for the MPC. Architect
Jeanne Gang applied green solutions to the project, such as having over
50 percent of the roof planted with vegetation. This green roof and
other measures reduce energy consumption, mitigate the urban heat
island effect, and contribute to the responsible stewardship of
resources.
The MPC ushers in a new era of media arts
education at Columbia College Chicago, described by President Warrick
L. Carter, Ph. D., as "one of the most important moments in Columbia's
history."
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