1. The Franklin W. Olin Humanities
Building, ca 2000s. Built in 1987 by architect
Cathy Simon, Olin contains classrooms,
a language center, and an auditorium. The
College celebrated its opening with a dedication
concert, and the conference Freedom
of Inquiry—Perspectives and Questions, at
which Mary McCarthy, then Charles P.
Stevenson Jr. Chair in Literature, provided
the keynote address. Popup image not available.
2. Architectural drawing of Tewksbury Hall,
1957. Tewksbury was completed in 1959
as a women’s dormitory first known as “the
New Dorm.” Designed by alumni architects
Peter-Paul Muller ’40 and Sidney Shelov ’37,
it represented the first modernist building
on campus.
3. Charles P. Stevenson Library, ca. mid-
1990s. Designed by Robert Venturi, the
Charles P. Stevenson Library opened
its doors in 1993. Photograph by Don
Hamerman.
4. CCS-Bard Hessel Museum, ca. 2006. The
Center for Curatorial Studies was founded in
1990, and expanded in 2006 with the support
of Marieluise Hessel to house the CCS
Bard Hessel Museum of Art. Photograph by
Karl Rabe. |
5. The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Center,
ca. mid-2000s. In 2004, the Milton and
Sally Avery Arts Center was renovated and
expanded. In 2008, the Jim Ottaway Jr. Film
Center was opened, housing screening/
seminar rooms, an animation studio, a 110-
seat theater, and a media lab. Photograph
by Don Hamerman.
6. The Ravine Houses, ca. 1980. “The
Ravines” were modular dorms completed
in 1972. Named for seven faculty members
who shaped the College in the mid-twentieth
century, they survived for almost three
decades.
7. The Richard B. Fisher Center for the
Performing Arts, ca. mid-2000s. The Frank
Gehry-designed Fisher Center opened
in 2003, and is the home of the Bard
Music Festival and the venue for many
SummerScape performances. Its dance and
theater studios provide rehearsal space for
undergraduates and its Sosnoff Theater
provides the region a first-class concert hall.
Photograph © Peter Aaron ’68/Esto.
| 8. Beneath the undulating eaves of the
Fisher Center’s main façade, ca. mid-2000s. Photograph © Peter Aaron ’68/Esto.
9. Fisher Center in winter, ca. mid-2000s. Photograph by Don Hamerman.
10. The Gabrielle H. Reem and Herbert J.
Kayden Center for Science and Computation
opened in 2007, designed by Rafael Viñoly
Architects. Photograph © Peter Aaron ’68/
Esto. |
