Title & Author:

The Federal Environment Agency : Aiming high with sustainable design / [presented by] Matthias Sauerbruch (Sauerbruch Hutton) & Louisa Hutton (Sauerbruch Hutton).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 2016.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (51 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Matthias Sauerbruch & Louisa Hutton -- Federal Environment Agency, Dessau By Sauerbruch Hutton, 2005 -- Munich Re, Munich By Sauerbruch Hutton, 2014 -- Photonics Centre, Berlin By Sauerbruch Hutton, 1998 -- Museum Brandhorst, Munich By Sauerbruch Hutton, 2008 -- M9 Museum, Venice-Mestre By Sauerbruch Hutton, Completion Due 2016.
Recorded at Sauerbruch Hutton's office in Berlin, March 2016 by Zoë Blackler.

Summary:

Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton set up Sauerbruch Hutton in 1989, now based in Berlin. Their best known buildings include the GSW Headquarters in Berlin, for which they were nominated for the Stirling Prize in 2000. In this talk they focus on the Federal Environment Agency in Dessau, completed in 2005. With its mix of low-tech materials and high-tech production processes, the building was designed to showcase the best in sustainable architecture. Hutton and Sauerbruch describe the development of the building's curvilinear plan along the route of an old railway line, and their use of colour, a constant in their work; how any sustainable building is only as efficient as the people who inhabit it; and how a concern for environmental efficiency has been a running thread through their work, from their Photonics Centre Berlin in 1998, through Museum Brandhorst, 2008, Munich Re, 2014, and the soon to be completed M9 Museum in Venice-Metre.

Subject:

Sustainable architecture.
Architecture durable.

Added entries:

Sauerbruch, Matthias, 1955- narrator.
Hutton, Louisa, 1957- narrator.