Sauerbruch Hutton : colour in architecture / photographs by Noshe ; editors, Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton.

Berlin : Distanz, [2012]

285 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 33 cm

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.

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Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects
Architecture Germany 21st century.
Color in architecture Germany.
Architecture Allemagne 21e siècle.
Couleur en architecture Allemagne.
Architecture
Color in architecture
Fassadengestaltung
Farbgestaltung
Polychromie
Architecture Germany History 21st century.
Germany

Sauerbruch, Matthias, 1955-
Hutton, Louisa, 1957-
Gehrke, Andreas, photography.
Glancey, Jonathan
Gehrke, Andreas
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects.
Sauerbruch Hutton.
Sauerbruch Hutton. German.

Location: Library main 278526
Call No.: BIB 214098
Status: Available