Stephan Schütz – författare

gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects is one of the world’s leading architectural firms. They are renowned for their designs in the fields of sports, transportation, and culture, for their intelligent interventions in existing architecture, and for their expert implementation of sustainable concepts. The current volume 15 of the monographic series presents 55 buildings and projects created between 2019 and 2022. These include the Isarphilharmonie concert hall in Munich, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, the Asia Financial Center & AIIB Headquarters in Beijing, and conversion plans for the former Berlin-Tegel airport. But unrealized projects and urban schemes are featured as well, such as the design for the Komische Oper in Berlin or for the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main and the concept for Chengdu Future City. Architectural appeal and identity as the goal of design form the common thread across all typologies.Selected examples in typological order: education, sports, culture, office, transportationThe contemporary, stringent book design by Heimann + Schwantes and the book’s fine paperstock and binding create an attractive volumeEleven essays and excursuses explain the background of the architecture and provide context

Transformative Timelessness 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 60 years. Featuring a diverse selection of international projects completed between 2015 and 2019, the latest volume in gmp’s monograph series includes 53 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 & Art 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. Founded in Hamburg in 1965, gmp · Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner is one of Germany’s leading architectural practices with offices around the world. With more than 500 projects in 23 countries, it is one of the few practices to take responsibility for a project from its conceptualization to its interior design. Its ongoing monographic series is one of the longest running and most acclaimed in the field of architecture. 45 years after Meinhard von Gerkan published the first volume, gmp partner Stephan Schütz took over as editor from the late architect, who died in 2022.

The conversion and extension of the National Museum of China forms a link between the former Chinese History Museum and the Chinese Revolutionary Museum. This publication presents German-Chinese co-operation on the largest museum in the world, with extensive details about its history.

The Grand Theater Qingdao lies in the Laoshan district of the harbour city at a newly created park that stretches from the sea to the foot of the Laoshan mountains. This publication shows the significance of this 'stage of urban life' in the historical context of China's opera and concert houses.

The architects behind the new cultural park, Tianjin Grand Theater, offer an insight into their design process