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Leicht und weit: Die Kunst der Konstruktion. Das Werk der kreativen Planer und Bauingenieure Jörg Schlaich und Rudolf Bergermann. Die Bauingenieure Jörg Schlaich und Rudolf Bergermann gehören seit 35 Jahren zu den Protagonisten der nationalen wie internationalen Architektur. Sie setzen als Tragwerksplaner nicht nur in Zusammenarbeit mit Architekten wie Günter Behnisch, Frank O. Gehry oder von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Maßstäbe, sondern auch als Entwickler eigener Bauten. Ihre Türme, Brücken und energiegewinnenden Anlagen sind außerordentliche Beispiele einer gelungenen Verbindung technischer und baukünstlerischer Aspekte. Das Katalogbuch zur großen Retrospektive würdigt erstmals das Schaffen der beiden visionären Bauingenieure.

„Architecture cannot be divided, as manifest construction and ecological efficiency have the same importance as functionality and design standards in all buildings. Form and supporting structure are only convincing when they merge in a building into a single entity that cannot be questioned and is understood as a component of a comprehensive building culture.“ In the spirit of this maxim by Jörg Schlaich, the Stuttgart-based engineering office, schlaich bergermann und partner, has been working successfully with various architects on the international level and on a very wide range of building projects for over 30 years. Innovative and comprehensible buildings are the focus, also following the shift to a new generation, as are integrated thinking, constructing and acting. This first volume of the new series, DETAIL engineering, will present the philosophy, working methods and interdisciplinary approach used by the engineers at schlaich bergermann und partner. The presentation of current projects in all of their major aspects, as well as specialist articles by a large number of authors, will show clearly why this engineering office operates successfully as one of the most renowned firms of its type in the world, without losing any authenticity in its work.

Our built environment is the result of multilayered and elaborate thought and design processes. Each of the architecture, landscape architecture, and civil engineering disciplines involved in this process has a wide range of design methods and their own disciplinary culture and history of ideas. New methodological approaches have emerged at the interfaces of these disciplines that require an interdisciplinary debate about designing. The focus of this publication is the current discussion about design, understood not only as the creation of a beautiful product, but as a task of building culture. Passion for the Built Environment provides new insights and perspectives and illuminates the array of methodological approaches and design options called for by our built environment—from the design to the realization and the finished property.