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Hutton Louisa, Sauerbruch Matthias

This book is the first comprehensive monograph of sauerbruch hutton: 60 projects, 8 texts, and a complete register of projects document the architects' rise to one of the leading practices concerned with a sustainable environment in the post-industrial city. This allows one to trace the development of their architectural thinking through the vehicle of realised projects, their texts, and a considerable number of unrealised works. The book will reveal Sauerbruch and Hutton's understanding of their profession as an ongoing process of research. The theme of sustainability surfaces throughout the book as an integral part of the architects' language.

About the Author

Louisa Hutton graduated from Bristol University in 1980 and from the Architectural Association, London, in 1985. She worked for Alison and Peter Smithson (1985-1988) prior to founding LHMS Architects with Matthias Sauerbruch in 1989. Their second office Sauerbruch Hutton Architects was opened in Berlin in 1993. Further to her work as architect she has been lecturing at numerous universities and institutions worldwide, and has acted as External Examiner for various UK universities (1995-2009). Louisa Hutton was a Commissioner for CABE, UK's Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (2003-2007). Louisa taught at the Architectural Association (1987-1990), she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and since 2008 is visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate Design School. Since 2008 she is a member of the Curatorial Board of the Schelling Architecture Foundation. Together with Matthias Sauerbruch she has been awarded the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 2003.

Matthias Sauerbruch graduated from both the Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin, and the Architectural Association, London, in 1984. From 1984 to 1988 he was a partner and project leader for OMA London. In 1989, together with Louisa Hutton, he founded LHMS Architects in London: their second office Sauerbruch Hutton Architects was opened in Berlin in1993. In 2006 Matthias became a member of the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin and in 2007 was a founding member of DGNB, the German Sustainable Building Council. Following five years of teaching at the Architectural Association (1985-1990), Matthias was professor at both the Technical University in Berlin (1995-2001) and the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Stuttgart (2001-2007). In 2006 Matthias was Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia and since 2008 he is visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate Design School. Since 2009 he has been a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design in New York as well Head of the Advisory Board at ANCB, Aedes Network Campus Berlin. Together with Louisa Hutton he has been awarded the Erich Schelling Prize for Architecture in 1998 and the Fritz Schumacher Prize in 2003.

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