Following the pair of monographic "Sauerbruch Hutton Archives" (Archive, 2006; Archive 2, 2016) Lars Mu ller Publishers presents a reader edited by the architects. Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and dissemination of architecture in Europe over the course of the last three decades, and of the architecture that has resulted. The essays generally include observations on one or more of Sauerbruch Hutton's buildings, but these do not necessarily form the focus of the respective texts. The authors include critics who have written on the work of the practice in the past, architectural colleagues and writers whose opinions and observations are respected by the editors as well as a handful of people who either live or work in one of their buildings and so have experienced Sauerbruch Hutton's architecture firsthand. Further, a photographic essay by the Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen will augment the twenty-fi ve essays with works created between 1990 and 2020. Analogous to the written pieces, these are images in their own right and of their own subjects that have been triggered by the presence of one of Sauerbruch Hutton's buildings.

"The current compendium traces the development of the office's architectural practice and thinking through a series of completed buildings, works in progress and projects that, as yet, remain unrealised. The book illuminates its strategies of sustainable design, its multiple interventions in the post-industrial cityscape and the unfolding of an architectural language full of sense and sensuality that reacts to its physical and social context, as well as to functional, technical, spatial and sculptural considerations. The book reveals Sauerbruch and Hutton's understanding of their profession as an ongoing process of research into presence and future, and is the only comprehensive documentation of their numerous works."

Dieses Kompendium bietet einen neuen Einblick in das Werk von sauerbruch hutton: Die Entwicklung ihres architektonischen Denkes lAsst sich lA1/4ckenlos nachverfolgen anhand von den Texten der Architekten, anhand der beachtlichen Anzahl nicht umgesetzter EntwA1/4rfe sowie anhand von realisierten oder im Bau befindlichen Projekten, wie z.B. der GSW Hauptverwaltung in Berlin, dem Umweltbundesamt in Dessau oder dem Museum fA1/4r die Sammlung Brandhorst in MA1/4nchen. Das Buch gibt einerseits einen weitreichenden Aoeberblick, macht aber andererseits auch verstAndlich, wie jedes Projekt individuell aus dem baulichen und sozialen Kontext heraus entwickelt wurde, und die jeweiligen Formen aus funktionalen, technischen, rAumlichen und skulpturalen Aoeberlegungen entstehen.

Das Buch lAsst erkennen, wie sauerbruch hutton ihre Arbeit als einen Prozess kontinuierlicher Forschung verstehen. Dabei taucht der Schwerpunkt der Nachhaltigkeit im gesamten Buch immer wieder als wesentlicher Bestandteil ihres Interesses auf. DarA1/4berhinaus haben die Architekten eine eigene Sprache entwickelt, die am rAumlichen Einsatz von Farbe und Material sowie ihrer organischen KArperlichkeit wieder erkennbar ist.