ECLA's residential campus is designed as a frame for a close-knit intellectual community. The buildings comprise 8 renovated former DDR embassies, each with a wonderful garden, as well as three recently acquired properties (including a former factory) to be developed over the coming years. The embassy buildings, designed in the neo-bauhaus style by Eckart Schmidt now function as comfortable dorms, spacious teaching offices, a library, studios and performance space, and administration buildings. No building or garden (and so no event) on the ECLA campus is ever more than a short walk away.

The ECLA campus is going to be developed over the coming years to accommodate the needs of the expanding ECLA community. For this purpose, ECLA is working with Deborah Berke & Partners Architects from New York.