Saturating Space
2014
186x140cm
Oil on canvas
Grüntuch Ernst Architects
Distanz
Dialogues
Simplicity and Innovative Ingenuity in Today’s Building
Editors: Ilka and Andreas Ruby
What is space? How can we experience it with the senses,
how understand and rethink its urban and cultural dimensions? These
questions stand at the beginning of the work of Grüntuch Ernst
architects. They meet the complex requirements of building today by
going back to traditional simplicity while producing innovative and
ingenious technical solutions—and yet they return, time and again, to
the central question of space. The new monograph offers a review of
Grüntuch Ernst’s award-winning projects from the past ten years as well
as more recent works and successful competition entries such as the
German School in Madrid and the conversion of the former Jewish Girls’
School in Berlin into a venue for art and culture. Instead of
traditional project descriptions, the book contains personal
conversations in which the two architects reflect on the motivations
that drive their projects and trace their evolution.
An exceptional approach to the architecture of the office appears in pictures created by the painter Asmund Havsteen-Mikkelsen and the photographer Heji Shin, who have used the means of their art to engage with Grüntuch Ernst’s designs.
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