Sauerbruch Hutton
Subtitle: colour in architecture
By: photographs by Noshe ; editors, Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton
Contributors: Gehrke, Andreas; Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
Publisher: Distanz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: mul; eng; ger
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9783942405386
Subjects: Color in architecture; Architecture
Other titles: Sauerbruch Hutton.; Sauerbruch Hutton. German.
Description: Sauerbruch and Hutton are unique among contemporary architects in their redefinition of colour as an essential material of architecture. The polychromatic treatment of their buildings created over the past twenty years reflect and concentrate the colours, forms and energies of the contemporary city. Simultaneously image and sculpture, ornament and text, they allow the complex technical reality of a building to disappear behind a powerful aesthetic experience. Beside Sauerbruch Hutton's renowned buildings such as the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, the Federal Environmental Agency Dessau or Munich's Brandhorst Museum, this book also shows their more recent work. Highlighting the sensual force of colour, Noshe's vibrant photographs reveal the architects' search for the expression of an architecture of sustainability that transcends both technical perfection and energy-efficient performance. Words by Jonathan Glancey, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch complement the photographs.
Notes: English and German.