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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Symposium Speakers and Moderation

moderation by Adria Daraban and Heike Hanada

Foto von Adria Daraban

Adria Daraban has studied architecture at the RWTH Aachen, where she 2021 received her PhD with the thesis “Figures of the fragmentary. Architecture specific concepts of the fragmentary in the modern”.

Since 2009, Adria Daraban has been working as an architect. Starting 2011 she has been working in research and teaching at the RWTH Aachen, BU Wuppertal and University of Kassel.

In 2015 Adria Daraban held a temporary professorship for history and theory of architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Munich, 2019-2021 she was a visiting professor for theory of architecture at the B-TU Cottbus-Senftenberg.

Since October 2021 she is teaching theory of architecture at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne.

Adria Daraban is co-editor of the online magazine archimaera.

Foto von Heike Hanada

Heike Hanada studied architecture at the HdK Berlin and at TODAI, University of Tokyo.

In 1994, she founded her studio (Hanada+) in Tokyo, and in 2007 in Weimar (heike hanada_laboratory of art and architecture).

Today she works as an artist and architect in Berlin. In 2007, her work received international recognition after receiving the 1st prize in an open competition for the extension of the Asplund Library in Stockholm.

Since 2009, Heike Hanada has been Professor for Design at the FH Potsdam. In 2018, she took over the chair of Building Typologies at the TU Dortmund.

On June 6, 2019, she received the Thuringian Architecture Prize for the recently opened Bauhaus Museum in Weimar.

Heike Hanada received the “Rome Prize Fellow Villa Massimo 2021/22“.

Symposium speakers

Verena von Beckerath

Filip Dujardin

Job Floris

Christoph Gantenbein

Simona Malvezzi

Oda Pälmke

Marco Provinciali

Uwe Schröder

Giuseppe Strappa

Val Warke

Rachel Whiteread

Peter L. Wilson

Imke Woelk