International House

An International House is originally derived from the U.S. academic residence in which to live together local and foreign students.

The idea of ​​the International House goes back to Harry Edmonds; this had - as the founding legend - 1909 a Chinese fellow students greeted, whereupon he remarked, Edmonds was the first for three weeks, which would have appealed to him. Affected by this loneliness experience Edmonds decided to bring foreign students with local people in touch. The joint mixed accommodation associated with organized activities, is the basic concept of the International Houses.

Funded by Rockefeller Dodge and 1924 she opened the first International House (abbreviated I- House) in New York City. The first branch of this family house was built in 1930 in Berkeley ( California). Among his most famous residents John Kenneth Galbraith heard. Another alumnus is the ecologist Richard N. Goldman ( Academic Year 1941/1942 ).

There are now more than a dozen International Houses worldwide.