The House of Legal Cultures
The Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" is seated in the 
The seat of the Center at the Bonner Bogen (Photo: Huy Nguyen)landmarked ‘Direktorenvilla’ (Directors’ mansion) at the Bonner Bogen, the area of the former Portland cement plant in Bonn-Ramersdorf, newly developed in 2002. The proximity to the Rhine, the government district, and the Bonn international business district lends the location a ‘glocal’ dimension from the outset. Together with the view of the Siebengebirge hills and Rheinauen meadows, it provides ideal conditions for the research project. The tower houses a studio, in which 
alternating artists in residence will provide for the artistic dimension to the Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture", by visualizing and dramatizing law as culture.
The architectural design of the Direktorenvilla emphasizes the dialogue between old and new. It combines 19th Century industrial architecture, the golden age of jurisprudence, 
with late modern transparent architecture. This tension between tradition and modernity, between nature, culture and science, allows the Direktorenvilla to blossom into an attractive place for the analysis of law within the process of globalization.
Foto: Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn