Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Location & approach

By car

The campus of the Technical University of Dortmund is located near the freeway junction Dortmund West, where the Sauerland line A45 crosses the Ruhr expressway B1/A40. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to the South Campus, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 leads to the North Campus. The university is signposted at both exits.

By bus and train

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 15 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. In addition, the university can be reached by bus lines 445, 447 and 462. Timetable information can be found on the homepage of the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association, and DSW21 also offer an interactive route network map.

The H-Train

The H-train is one of the landmarks of the TU Dortmund. Line 1 runs every 10 minutes between Dortmund Eichlinghofen and the Technology Center via Campus South and Dortmund University S, while Line 2 commutes every 5 minutes between Campus North and Campus South. It covers this distance in two minutes.

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, the AirportExpress takes a good 20 minutes to Dortmund Central Station and from there the S-Bahn (suburban train) takes you to the university. A wider range of international flight connections is offered by Düsseldorf Airport, about 60 kilometers away, which can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Philip Ursprung

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Since 2011, Philip Ursprung (*1963) is Professor for Art and Architectural History at the ETH Zürich, and since 2017 the Dean of the Architecture Department. He studied art history, history and German literature in Geneva, Vienna and Berlin, received his doctorate from the FU Berlin in 1993 and his Habilitation from the ETH Zürich in 1999. He has taught at the University of the Arts Berlin, Columbia University New York, the Barcelona Institute of Architecture and the University of Zurich, among others. He is the editor of a number of books including Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History (2002) and Caruso St John: Almost Everything (2008). His most recent publication is Der Wert der Oberfläche: Essays zu Architektur, Kunst und Ökonomie (2017).

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Architecture and Amnesia

If it’s true that the temporal horizon has been shrinking in industrialized societies since the end of the cold war and since the beginning of the “Empire” (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri), and that we find ourselves in an era of eternal presence and memory loss, then only spectacular events can meet the demand for identification. Leading this development, according to my thesis, since the boom at the end of the 20th century, are no longer museums but rather places for ephemeral spectacles. Around the world, centers for performing arts, sports arenas and venues for ephemeral periodic exhibitions like biennials and triennials have taken precedence over museums. The highest demand for monumentality has arisen out of the tourism industry. A hybrid of monumentality and volatility corresponds to this dynamic. Using the example of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg by Herzog & de Meuron, the (unrealized) cruise ship terminal in Chile’s Strait of Magellan by Cecilia Puga and the Shed in New York by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, I will take on the question of how architecture articulates this change.

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