Spring Academy - AB - TU Dortmund

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Location & approach

By car

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

Public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also 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 offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

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

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and 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 Dortmund West highway junction, where the A45 Sauerland line crosses the B1/A40 Ruhr expressway. The Dortmund-Eichlinghofen exit on the A45 leads to Campus South, the Dortmund-Dorstfeld exit on the A40 to Campus North. The university is signposted at both exits.

Public transport

The "Dortmund Universität" S-Bahn station is located directly on the North Campus. From there, the S-Bahn line S1 runs every 20 or 30 minutes to Dortmund main station and in the opposite direction to Düsseldorf main station via Bochum, Essen and Duisburg. The university can also 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 offers an interactive route network map.

The H-Bahn

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

By plane

From Dortmund Airport, you can take the AirportExpress to Dortmund Central Station in just over 20 minutes and from there take the S-Bahn to the university. Düsseldorf Airport, around 60 kilometers away, offers a wider range of international flight connections and can be reached directly by S-Bahn from the university station.

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Ruhr International Spring Academy

As a local equivalent to the "International Summer Academy Venice", which has been taking place for over 30 years, apl. Prof. Olaf Schmidt and apl. Prof. Michael Schwarz launched the first "International Spring Academy" in 2013 and organized it with the Dipartimento di Architettura of the Politecnico di Torino. The theme of the first academy was "Una Strada Orribile" - the B1 in Dortmund's city center. Due to the success of the inaugural event, the TU Eindhoven, the FH Potsdam and the Universitá degli Studi di Napoli Federico II were won over. In the following years, further Dortmund topics such as "Der Wall" (2014), "Der Hellweg" (2015), "Stadtplätze" (2016), "Nordstadt-Modelle" (2017), "Stadt-Brachen" (2018), "Nachverdichtung" (2019), "Konversion" (2020), "Großsiedlungen" (2021) and "Stadteingänge" (2022) were examined.

The academy promotes collaboration between international architecture students and lecturers. This offers young academics the opportunity to acquire extensive knowledge of urban development, urban planning, architecture and architectural history of this special European region during the workshop and to explore and analyze both the Ruhr area as a whole and the city of Dortmund under certain urban planning and architectural aspects in a professionally trained and guided manner. The workshop is organized jointly by all participating universities. The students will be supervised in international teams by lecturers from the participating universities. For both the students and the teachers, the joint work and the exchange of content with the students and colleagues from the other European universities is an extraordinary learning and teaching experience. An essential part of the program is a symposium with a series of lectures and panel discussions. Numerous speakers from the fields of science, politics, culture, architecture and urban planning are invited. An excursion confronts the students with the built environment and provides input for their academic work.

The International Spring Academy is held annually in March with a preparatory seminar in the winter semester by apl. Prof. Olaf Schmidt and apl. Prof. Michael Schwarz.

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