China Europe International Business School

  • Location: Shanghai
    Size: 40,000 sqm

    Use: CEIBS Campus serves the school’s MBA, EMBA and Executive Development programs
    Status: Phase I Completed 1999, Phase II Completed 2002

    Ian Bader: Design Principal
    Pei Cobb Freed and Partners

The CEIBS campus, home to a leading graduate school of management in Asia, is designed to foster an appreciation for broad cultural values and at the same time give form to a community of common intellectual interests.

The design of the campus draws on the rich tradition of Chinese garden architecture and in its application of mathematical and systematic rigor makes place for international perspectives in a calm but purposeful new synthesis. It asserts the primacy of space over object, nature over artefact.

In evoking a sense of concentrated calm and light, it seeks to promote values which transcend the necessities of expedience and competitive self-interest.

The campus garden of pools and varied landscape elements are bordered by an arcaded sequence of spaces that link the campus dormitories, academic center, library, convocation hall, dining halls, student center and gymnasium.

The buildings housing these diverse uses are constructed from renewable resources using local vernacular construction technologies.

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