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Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch (eds.)

The New Experimenta in Heilbronn

Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2019, the Experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn is Germany’s largest science museum and a new landmark of the up-and-coming university city. Viewed through the lens of Heilbronn’s historical development, it appears as an agent of change heralding the emergence of a local knowledge-based society. As a construction, the building follows its own experimental path, both in organizational, structural, and ecological terms. It stands in a long tradition of spiral shaped buildings, that stretches from antiquity to modernity and contemporary times. Its transformation into a science centre expands the idea of metaphorical ascent in striking and innovative way.

This volume examines the building’s architecture from different angles. Texts by Florian Heilmeyer and numerous photographs and drawings shed light on this new concept of science centre architecture.

Designed by Sauerbruch Hutton and opened in 2019, the Experimenta Science Center in Heilbronn is Germany’s largest science museum and a new landmark of the up-and-coming university city. Viewed through the lens of Heilbronn’s historical development, it appears as an agent of change heralding the emergence of a local knowledge-based society. As a construction, the building follows its own experimental path, both in organizational, structural, and ecological terms. It stands in a long tradition of spiral shaped buildings, that stretches from antiquity to modernity and contemporary times. Its transformation into a science centre expands the idea of metaphorical ascent in striking and innovative way.

This volume examines the building’s architecture from different angles. Texts by Florian Heilmeyer and numerous photographs and drawings shed light on this new concept of science centre architecture.

English edition – also available in German

Edited by Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch

With contributions by Florian Heilmeyer

Design: Heimann + Schwantes

15 × 24 cm, 6 × 9 ½ in

128 pages, 135 illustrations

paperback

2023, 978-3-03778-722-9, English
CHF 15.00

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.

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.

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