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This modest booklet examines the architecture of the new Experimenta Science Centre in Heilbronn from three different angles: In terms of urban history, this building - which was designed by sauerbruch hutton - simultaneously stands as an icon and a tool for change that accompanies its city into a new economy of knowledge. As a construction, it follows its own experimental path, both in organisational, structural and ecological terms. Finally, the project is a late offspring of a typological family of spiral buildings which stretches from antiquity via the modern movement up to the very present. 00All three perspectives are captured in Florian Heilmayer?s concise and lucid texts and are illustrated by numerous photos and drawings. Both for Experimenta visitors as well as other interested contemporaries this little pamphlet is a must.

A concise reader on European architecture's defining forces of the past 30 years German designer Matthias Sauerbruch (born 1955) and British designer Louisa Hutton (born 1957) have asked a diverse group of authors to reflect on the various conditions that have shaped the conception, production and circulation of European architecture over the past 30 years. While the essays collected in this volume include observations of Sauerbruch Hutton's buildings, the scope of the authors' conclusions about European design trends far exceeds the work of this particular agency. The text is supplemented by a photographic essay by Finnish artist Ola Kolehmainen, offering readers an immersive experience of the firm's most impressive accomplishments.