Campus Import/Export Sima Bhattarai Bard College Berlin Seminar WS 2019/20 Katherine Eynon
Bard College Berlin campus comprises six a cafeteria, classrooms and as an art and they were not completely prefabricated ground floor above a basement. Renovation renovated former buildings for diplomat- performance space. Of the eleven buildings buildings. Each of the structures were and adaptation of the Bard campus build- ic missions constructed by the German acquired by the college in the former ‘diplo- constructed from bricks and later covered ings were undertaken by Architect Thomas Democratic Republic (GDR) in a residential matic quarter’ of the GDR in Pankow, three with grey stucco on the external walls. The Kaup. He applied primary colors on select garden setting. Additionally, the school buildings have been dismantled to construct floors and ceilings were cast in concrete. exterior walls of the buildings in an effort to owns one residential altbau building, a new residences for students. Building type Pankow was designed by depart from the grey 1970s GDR aesthetics. former factory building, and one newly built The six buildings constructed by the GDR architect Eckart Schmidt. However, all All the buildings have flagstaffs in the front residential hall designed by Atelier Kempe can be categorised into different architectur- three types bear architectural similarities. elevation bearing the flag of Bard College Thill, all of which are within a short walking al typologies of neo-bauhaus style, namely: Both Pankow and Gera are essentially Berlin. The colors and flags subtly separate CAMPUS distance to one another. These buildings Pankow, Gera and Magdeburg. Whilst the large cubes. Magdeburg is an L-shaped the campus buildings from the surrounding currently function as student residences, three typologies were standardised modules combination of two building blocks which is residential buildings in the neighbourhood. ARCHITECTURE administration and faculty offices, a library, designed to be replicated multiple times, accessible via a staircase leading up to the Campus Import/Export Sima Bhattarai Bard College Berlin Seminar WS 2019/20 Katherine Eynon URBAN
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S Niederschönhausen Neubau Pankow Typ Gera C Berlin Student housing Student cafeteria
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Bard College Berlin is located in the College campus has a unique urban regarded branch campus with roots in the offers students a firsthand experience northern Berlin district of Pankow context, in that the campus is located within USA is largely indiscernible in the midst of Berlin suburban life, whilst still being in the affluent residential suburb of nine individual buildings situated across of the quiet residential neighbourhood. adequately positioned near public transport Niederschönhausen, approximately 8km five residential blocks. Four buildings The discrete nature of the Bard College that connects students to the bustling centre north of Alexanderplatz and 5km south of accomodate student housing, four have Berlin campus is considered to reflect the of Alexanderplatz in approximately half and the Brandenburg border. The built form education and administration functions, and small scale, intimate nature of this highly hour. Upon reflection, it is considered that of the neighbourhood is most commonly one is a cafeteria. The campus is located selective higher education institution and the Bard College Berlin campus reflects the two to three storeys in height, with some within predominantly existing buildings the experience it offers its students.Student promoted values of the college’s USA based buildings four storeys in height. The area that were constructed in the 1970s. accommodation, daily meals, study areas partner university, being a close-knit student has a density of 75 dwellings per hectare, Consequently, the campus seamlessly fits and learning spaces are all provided for community in a calm, green neighbourhood and approximately 200 residents per into the existing urban fabric, and apart in the collection of buildings dispersed setting. URBAN hectare (Stadt Berlin 2020). The Bard from a sign/banner, the presence of a highly amongst residential dwellings. The campus Campus Import/Export Sima Bhattarai Bard College Berlin Seminar WS 2019/20 Katherine Eynon
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students Humanities core faculty Academy ear 1st 2nd year BA students live guest faculty S Pro ect ear rd year BA students live the Arts Begin in Berlin O O US O T German gender representation education
education On campus fee: 28,7 8 per year aculty princples Economics B Students est.1999 princples LAB: Liberal Arts Berlin Arts Society in Berlin 40 Politics Off campus fee: 20, per year 38
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students protest against Kulturlabor Institute for Cultural Inquiry former Deutschland Demokratik imprisonment of Sara BA Humanities, Arts Republik Embassy buildings Madini in Greece Technische Universität Berlin Social Thought accreddited are bought in Sara Madini is offered a Niederschönhausen and the full scholarship at Bard. school relocates to Berlin irst Bachelor BA Economics, Politics Degree‘s are awarded Social Thought accreddited
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Typ Pankow & Typ Madgeburg B B given national construction of new European ollege of buildings are transformed merger with Bard B C Liberal Arts was according to the schools ollege, USA B accredditation from student housing founded in Buch, changing needs. begins the Wissenschaftsrat building completed Germany
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Bard College Berlin was founded by three gram in Germany. Their three-year Bachelor a total of 87 faculty members, the ratio of students are required to live on campus and German intellectuals and entrepreneurs in in Economics, Politics and Social Thought staff to students is approximately 1:3, and the annual student fee for 2019 was 28,738 1999 as the European College of Liberal was accredited in 2015. The commonali- consequently class sizes seldom exceed 12 euros. Third year students have the choice Arts (ECLA). Their aim was to provide a ty between the two bachelor programs is students. The core faculty members at the to live off campus and if so pay a reduced “high-quality, small-group seminar, and the aspect of social thought, that seeks to time of writing are from predominantly the annual fee of 20,443 euros (BCB 2020). teaching-oriented international program of educate all of their bachelor students in USA or Germany, with many of the faculty Bard College Berlin is the most expensive advanced study for undergraduates of par- intellectual, cultural and political history. staff coming from highly regarded Ameri- bachelor degree level education institution ticular promise wishing to study in English” In addition, all students must demonstrate can universities. Upon merging with Bard in Berlin. However, the college states that (BCB 2020). In 2013 Bard College Berlin proficiency in B1 level German by the end College New York, the institution shifted in 2019, 77% of students were receiving was officially founded and their three-year of their second year. Currently, the college to a new funding model based on student financial aid to study at the campus. Bachelor in Humanities, the Arts and Social also offers temporary study programs on fees, donor contributions and sponsorships. INSTITUTION Thought was accredited as a degree pro- both a semester and a yearly basis. With Currently, first and second year bachelor Campus Import/Export Sima Bhattarai Bard College Berlin Seminar WS 2019/20 Katherine Eynon
Bard College originated in New York, USA to the exchanges within the Bard partner College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) in 1999, run- foundation transferred their ownership to with its Annandale on the Hudson River university network, the Berlin campus offers ning short courses in European philosophy, Bard. The campus then offered BA degrees campus. Bard College Berlin is a branch its students an opportunity for ERASMUS literature and culture. The college moved accredited both in Germany and USA. Se- campus of Bard College New York, and exchange to institutions including the to its current location in Pankow after being mester and year long exchange programs forms part of the Bard university interna- Institut d’Études Politiques (7 campuses in acquired by the Christian A. Johnson En- that relied on Berlin’s resources in areas of tional network that includes the Faculty of France); Montpellier University in France; deavor Foundation in 2002 and was able to arts and culture; politics, economics, and Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg Leiden University College in Hague; Univer- expand its courses to one-year programs. society; and history and literature were add- State University in Russia; the Al-Quds sity College Utrecht; Amsterdam University Bard College, USA had been supporting ed to the curriculum. Bard College Berlin Bard College for Arts and Sciences in East College in the Netherlands; University of courses run by ECLA, since its acquisition today has seat reservation for students from TRANSNATIONAL Jerusalem; the American University of Bologna in Italy; and other universities by the Endeavour Foundation. ECLA was Bard College,USA. More than 60 different Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and the Central across Europe. finally announced as a satellite campus of nationalities are represented by the current- RELATIONS European University in Hungary. In addition Bard College Berlin started as the European Bard, USA, in 2012, after the Endeavour ly enrolled students in Berlin campus.