StadtBautenRuhr

In the Ruhr region of modernism, numerous urban buildings were realized not only to provide impulses for new urbanity, but also to serve as projection sites for a new urban society. From 2019 to 2022, the research and mediation project of the Technical University of Dortmund, the Baukunstarchiv NRW and the Museum Folkwang, was dedicated to the question of how certain building tasks in the Ruhr region contributed to the formation of identity, based on the holdings of the Baukunstarchiv NRW.

The digital exhibition StadtBautenRuhr allows a look at the “hidden treasures” of the Baukunstarchiv NRW, whose holdings have been processed under various questions. Plans, sketches, models and photographs provide impressions of the history of planning and building. New photographs taken as part of the research project give an impression of the buildings and their urban surroundings.

Elena Schneider’s Konsole has already been used in the accompanying three-volume book series. Its clarity combines perfectly with the mindset of the architects and its technical appearance reflects the requirements of the time.