Walk

 

 

1)  The route begins slightly north of the Kennispoort at Kennedylaan. Near the building of the Chamber of Commerce and the TU/e used to be one of the entrances to the campus, marked by these two sculptures: the ‘Ring of Möbius’ and a text block with the TU/e motto, ‘Mens Agitat Molem’. The Benedictine monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan designed the letters for this.

 

 

2) When you walk back and turn left at the Kennispoort, the Limbopad will take you across the river Dommel to the lawn in front of the Auditorium. There, immediately on your left, you see the construction ‘Le Poème Électronique'. The Swiss architect Le Corbusier made this sculpture for the Philips pavilion at the world exhibition of 1958.

 

 

3) The route continues along the front of the Auditorium, left below the footbridge. On the corner on the right is the sculpture ‘Floating Amazon’ by Arthur Spronken. This Limburg artist is specialized in equine torsos and the TU/e possesses one of the most powerful sculptures he has made of this theme.  

4) Turning right, passing under the Hoofdgebouw, on the left you find the sculpture ‘Aggression’ by Carel Kneulman. Kneulman, noted in particular for ‘Het Lieverdje’ in Amsterdam, made this sculpture especially for the TU/e. It is a plea for contemplation and against violence and alienation.

5) A bit farther, in front of the entrance to the Department of Electrical Engineering, stands the sculpture ‘Seed nr. 13’. It was made by Shinkichi Tajiri, an American artist with Japanese ancestors, who has lived in the Netherlands for years. This sculpture symbolizes harmony and it represents the merger of feminine and masculine into one sculpture. 

 

 

 

 

6) The route continues along the entrance to Electrical Engineering, and bends to the right. Lovers of nature can continue along the river Dommel and turn right at the end. If you follow the paved road you need to turn left at the end, towards the Department of Technology Management. In front of the entrance you find the sculpture entitled ‘Flying’ by Wessel Couzijn. 

 

7) The route continues south towards the roundabout, where you turn left towards the narrow street opposite. It runs between two buildings: on the right there is the old Physics building, on the left the new building Cascade. Here you find a sculpture entitled ‘Machine‘ by the Rotterdam artist Kor Bekker, who always works with geometric shapes. 

 

 

 

 

 

8) The route continues straight on and leads to the Wielen. There, on your right, hidden behind the trees and the bicycle shed, is the sculpture ‘Turbulence’ by Margot Zanstra. This former ballerina and choreographer, who only turned artist at a later age, was given special mention for this sculpture at the Henry Moore Exhibition. 

 

 

 

9) Across the Wielen, halfway in the direction of Kennedylaan, on the roof of the lecture hall of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, there are two green horses’ heads. They were made by Ingrid Rollema, visual artist in The Hague.. Ze zijn gemaakt door Ingrid Rollema, beeldend kunstenares te Den Haag.

10) At the end of the Wielen, on the left, is Vertigo. On the lawn in front of this building you find the floor reliefs by Ad Dekkers. They were designed for the old Rekencentrum, now Laplacegebouw. When the building was renovated they were moved to this lawn, so that they are a public possession again.

11) Opposite Vertigo, towards the Hoofdgebouw, stands ‘Genesis’ by Piet Killaars. This sculpture, too, was made specially for the TU/e and represents the growth process that students go through in the course of the years here.

12)  On the left in front of the Hoofdgebouw stands the sculpture ‘The Student’. The artist, Oswald Wenckebach, made this a mildly ironic, comical, yet at once romantic sculpture.