For the ex­hi­bi­tion “High En­ergy – En­gi­neer­ing Con­truc­tion Cul­ture” the Acad­emy of Arts Berlin pub­lished an 80 page cat­a­logue rep­re­sent­ing the works of en­gi­neers Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berg­er­mann. The de­sign prin­ci­ples of the ex­hi­bi­tion, which Moni­teurs also de­vel­oped, were used in the de­sign of the cat­a­logue. Mo­tifs that were spe­cially adopted for the in­tro­duc­tions to in­di­vid­ual themes of the ex­hi­bi­tion take on the roles of chap­ter in­tro pages in the cat­a­logue.

The world renowned en­gi­neer­ing of­fice schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner has pub­lished a se­ries of top­i­cal mag­a­zines. The first is­sue high­lights their work on top­ics re­lated to the sun. Since the 1970s, the of­fice has worked in this field with tech­no­log­i­cal con­cepts, and op­er­ates in an ad­vi­sory ca­pac­ity and as pro­ject man­ager.

The de­sign of the book in many lay­ers, goes hand in hand with the con­tent, which de­scribes the many dif­fer­ent lay­ers with which the en­gi­neers schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner deal and in which they work.

How do the en­gi­neers al­ways man­age to de­liver in­no­v­a­tive and first-class work? A look be­hind the scenes de­scribes this. In ad­di­tion to ex­cit­ing texts and pro­ject de­scrip­tions, the book also pro­vides space for beau­ti­ful, quiet photo se­ries. What it means when en­gi­neers work to­gether with artists is shown in the layer art, for ex­am­ple. Nu­mer­ous works are vividly ex­plored in depth about Aug­mented Re­al­ity.

In this book, pub­lished by the “Birkhäuser Ver­lag”, Ur­sula Baus and Mike Schlaich pre­sent from an ar­chi­tec­tural and en­gi­neer­ing point of view: the con­struc­tion, de­sign and his­tory of pedes­trian bridges, with a fo­cus on the one sec­tion of the struc­ture that is re­served only for pedes­tri­ans and cy­clists. The de­sign con­cept is based on the prin­ci­pal of a wash­ing line, cre­at­ing ex­cep­tion­ally strik­ing pages. This in turn re­flects the di­ver­sity of the bridges and the in­di­vid­ual per­cep­tion of these.

The as­so­ci­a­tion “IN­GE­NIEUR BAUKUNST eV” was brought into life by friends of the for­mer Berlin En­gi­neer­ing Arts Gallery, in or­der to en­hance the ar­chi­tec­tural and pub­lic un­der­stand­ing of the cul­tural and cre­ative ser­vices in the fields of en­gi­neer­ing sci­ences.