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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Uwe Schröder

short CV

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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

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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’…

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