CAMPUSGEBOUWEN

THE CAMPUS

The TU Delft has a rich history and has moved around the city of Delft in the last two decades. Where the university was first based within the city centre, it gradually moved outside the city. In the 60s and 70s the campus expanded more to the south of Delft and most of the campus as we know it now was built.

The TU Delft started as the Royal Academy (Koninklijke Akademie) on the 8th of January 1842. The school was founded by a man named Antoine Lipkens and took residence in a prestigious canal house at the Oude Delft. This particular canal house was built in 1717, and had already had multiple purposes. It had been a brewery, a private residence, and before the Royal Academy was founded, it had been a military school. The royal academy was not very successful, therefore it was dissolved in 1864 and the buildings were given to the Polytechnic school (Polytechnische school). The way of teaching at the Polytechnic school looked already a lot like the way students are taught at universities today. On the right there is a map of Delft that shows the situation in 1905. In 1905, when certain educational laws were changed, the name of the school was changed into ‘Technische Hoogeschool van Delft’. Even though the name did not suggest it, the school was now considered as an university. Yet it took another 80 years till they changed the name to ‘Technische Universiteit Delft’, or in short: TU Delft.

THEN & NOW

1923 1975

From a historic point of view the faculties of Civil Engineering and Architecture were inevitably linked. It wasn’t till the early 20th century that they split and officially formed separate faculties. They also used to share a study association (‘Praktische Studie’), but this was also separated after World War II.

The Faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences was always scattered around the city and got it’s own faculty in the 1920s on the Oostplantsoen. When the university started to move towards the south of Delft, a new faculty building was realised in the centre of the nowadays campus. A brutalist concrete building, designed by van den Broek and Bakema architects. Above there is a picture of the faculty as it is now. The Geosciences part was added in the 2000s with a glass extension on the left side of the building. This was also realised by the same architecture firm as the rest of the building.

Just like the faculty of Civil Engineering, was the faculty of Architecture also scattered around the city centre. One of the departments of architecure was in a monumental building on the Oude Delft (left bottom). From the 70s, the faculty of Architecture moved to the south side of the campus, to a building that was designed by van den Broek en Bakema architects as well (van den Broek was a lecturer at the Technische Hoogeschool and got multiple assignments for buildings around the campus.). In 2008 the faculty of Architecture burned down and had to be relocated in a short amount of time. The formerly known as ‘Red Chemistry’ building on the Julianalaan was vacant, and within one summer it was renovated into the new Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment.//

SOURCES 1 Image campus - https://www.mecanoo.nl/Projects/project/44/MekelPark-Campus-Delft-University-of-Technology?t=0 2 Image Delft 1905 - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universiteit_Delft#/media/File:Delft_1905.jpg 3 Image Oude Delft 95 - http://www.achterdegevelsvandelft.nl/huizen/ Oude%20Delft%2095_files/Oude%20Delft%2095_6.jpg 4 Image Civil Engineering 1923 - https://www.funda.nl/koop/verkocht/ delft/appartement-40557147-oostplantsoen-103/#foto-1 5 Image Civil Engineering now - www.vastjanszennl%2Fproject%2Fproj ectmanager-tu-delft%2F&psig=AOvVaw30RUTEHGfhZRR_6DnjrEaF&u st=1541242300662347 6 Image Architecture 1917 - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_gebouwen_van_de_Technische_Universiteit_Delft#/media/File:Gevel_-_ Delft_-_20052516_-_RCE.jpg 7 Image Architecture 1976 - https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculteitsgebouw_Bouwkunde_(TU_Delft)#/media/File:Gebouw_Bouwkunde.jpg