Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton (eds.)

The Turn of the Century

A Reader about Architecture in Europe 1990–2020

For this multifaceted reader, 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. A photographic essay by the Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen augments the twenty-five essays with works created between 1990 and 2020.

For this multifaceted reader, 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. A photographic essay by the Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen augments the twenty-five essays with works created between 1990 and 2020.


The list of contributors make this book hard to resist
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Edited by Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch

With photographs by Ola Kolehmainen

With contributions by Thomas Auer, Barry Bergdoll, Marco Biscione, Jean-Louis Cohen, Peter Cook, Kristin Feireiss, Angelika Fitz, Kurt Forster, Adrian Forty, Florian Heilmeyer, Dirk van den Heuvel, Kieran Long, Ijoma Mangold, Gerhard Matzig, Mohsen Mostafavi, Lars Müller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Eric Parry, Kester Rattenbury, Karin Sander, Veronica Simpson, Philip Ursprung, Georg Vrachliotis, Mark Wigley

Design: Heimann und Schwantes

24 × 30 cm, 9 ½ × 11 ¾ in

164 pages, 14 illustrations

hardback

2021, 978-3-03778-674-1, English
CHF 30.00

Louisa Hutton

Louisa Hutton is an architect and, together with Matthias Sauerbruch, the founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton, an architecture studio based in Berlin that operates internationally. Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch are leading architects of their generation. Louisa Hutton has taught at the AA, London, Harvard GSD and the University of Virginia, and has lectured, chaired and participated in juries and contributed to conferences world-wide. Hutton is an Honorary Fellow of the AIA and a Royal Academician of Arts (London) where she is currently Chair of the Architecture Committee.

Matthias Sauerbruch

Matthias Sauerbruch is an architect and, together with Louisa Hutton, the founding partner of Sauerbruch Hutton, an architecture studio based in Berlin that operates internationally. Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton are leading architects of their generation. Matthias Sauerbruch has taught at the AA, London, the TU Berlin, the SAbK Stuttgart as well as Harvard GSD and University of Virginia. He has contributed to juries and conferences world-wide. A founding member of the German Sustainable Building Council, director of Architecture at the Akademie der Künste, Sauerbruch is also an Honorary Fellow of the AIA American Institute of Architects.