The ideal of timeless simplicity yet enduring structural quality in an overarching sense has been at the heart of the architectural practice of gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner for more than sixty years. Featuring a diverse selection of international projects completed between 2015 and 2019, volume 14 of gmp's monograph series includes 47 high-profile and critically acclaimed projects such as the conversion and refurbishment of the Kulturpalast Dresden, the impressive steel structure of the Elbbrücken train station in Hamburg, as well as also major projects in China like the Tianjin Binhai Cultural Center and Museum and Guangxi Culture & Arts Center or the German House in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, whose innovative, award-winning facade system is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Richly illustrated with full-color documentation, it also includes some designs that were not realized such as the membrane-like roof for the Verona Arena. With more than half of the world's embodied energy contained in existing buildings, one of gmp's key approaches is indeed the appreciation and transformative intervention in existing contexts.
2024
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin
German/English
424 pages, 30.2 x 23.4 cm, Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-7757-5489-7
Edited by Stephan Schütz with Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg
Managing editors: Detlef Jessen-Klingenberg, Berit Liedtke
Picture editing: Stephan Schütz, Detlef-Jessen Klingenberg, Berit Liedtke, Sezen Dursun
Editorial direction: Berit Liedtke
Coordination drawing graphics: Marta Busnelli
Drawing graphics: Sophie-Charlotte Altrock, Bahar Amiri, Andreas Brinkmann, Joana Hartmann, Oliver Reese, Dinara Zakirova
Translations: David Koralek | ArchiTrans
Graphic concept: wibberenz'design, Tom Wibberenz and Hendrik Sichler
Cover design, graphic design, and typesetting: Bureau Hendrik Sichler
Printing and binding: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
