2G N. 52 Sauerbruch Hutton
Barry Bergdoll,Louisa
Sauerbruch Hutton is a practice founded by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton with its main offices in Berlin and London. Active as an independent concern for upwards of twenty years, they have developed a personal language that is essentially characterised by two evident features: the free, sinuous forms of some of their buildings and a bold, emphatic use of colour. Subten...
Sinopsis
Sauerbruch Hutton is a practice founded by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton with its main offices in Berlin and London. Active as an independent concern for upwards of twenty years, they have developed a personal language that is essentially characterised by two evident features: the free, sinuous forms of some of their buildings and a bold, emphatic use of colour.
Subtending these obvious characteristics are other no less important ones that are in some way derived from the first ones. We are referring to their wish to create a sense of place, whatever the situation, be it in an urban centre or in a rundown industrial area on the outskirts. Their buildings are gestures on an urban scale that resolve the programme of needs defined by the client and establish a dialogue with the location.
Likewise, it is worth highlighting the strong backing they give to an architectural approach based on sustainability. Sauerbruch Hutton defend and construct a holistic idea of the sustainable that incorporates the aesthetic and sensual pleasure the users of the buildings experience as well as an energy-based analysis of the constructional process or passive and active energy systems. In short, theirs is a defence of sustainability that acts in a resolute way, without artifice or pretentiousness.
The introductory texts at the beginning of the volume, written by Barry Bergdoll and Philip Ursprung, analyse all these issues and provide us with clues to understanding and contextualising the work of Sauerbruch Hutton. Barry Berdoll (currently Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the MoMA in New York) offers a panoramic vision of their work. Bergdoll plots an historical route that begins with their famous GSW Building in Berlin (1991-1999), an icon of urban acupuncture, sited in the recently configured territory of East Germany, which served as a boost to revitalising the area. His essay contextualises the recent work of the archit
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| Table of contents: Introductions Sustainable colours and non- standard forms. On sauerbruch hutton's recent work by Barry Bergdoll Images on the move: sauerbruch hutton and the two germanys by Philip Ursprung Works and Projects Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau Energy Dome, Soria Environmental City Urban study for Masséna Bruneseau, Paris Urban plan for the entrance of Tilburg Municipal Savings Bank, Oberhausen Jessop West, University of Sheffield Extension to Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich Urban plan, housing and offi ce buildings for the centre of Doha Headquarters for FIH Bank at Langelinie, Copenhagen Museum Brandhorst, Munich Türkentor exhibition space, Munich Office building for KfW Bankengruppe, Frankfurt Office buildings on the Rhine, Cologne L57 offi ce extension, Berlin Low2No urban block, Helsinki Biography Nexus Twenty years by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton |
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