Uwe Schröder
short CV
Uwe Schröder, b.*1964 in Bonn, studied architecture at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH) and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since 1993, he has maintained his own architecture office in Bonn. After holding teaching positions in Bochum and Cologne, he was a professor of design and architectural theory at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences from 2004 to 2008, and has been a professor at the Department of Spatial Design with the Faculty of Architecture at the RWTH Aachen University since 2008.
2006 Uwe Schröder was Fellow of the “German Academy Rome Casa Baldi”. He has held guest professorships at the Università di Bologna (2009-2010), the Università degli Studi di Napoli (2016), the Politecnico di Bari (2016), the Università degli Studi di Catania (2018), the Politecnico di Milano (2018-2019), and the Università degli Studi di Parma (2020-2021).
Abstract
Lingua Romana
… A simple explanatory model? By no means. For the connotations suggested by the architecture—whether emblematically, metaphorically, or symbolically—present themselves as intertwined, ambiguous, and linked to various systems of reference. Intended is a perhaps indeterminable and hence enigmatic effect, one that is nonetheless capable of establishing a mental atmosphere, one that holds us under its spell, disclosing an untamed thinking that eludes rationally deducible principles, and one that perpetually reconstructs the interconnectedness of reality as a kind of ‘bricolage’ of fragments drawn from diverse contexts of meaning. The romantic is enjoying a revival. And architecture? It stands there in space as nothing less than the question of a new ‘contentuality’…