The ret­ro­spec­tive of the en­gi­neer­ing ar­chi­tects Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berg­er­mann, “le­icht weit – light struc­tures”, was pub­lished as a hard­back book of the same ti­tle. It also ap­peared as a brochure and was even trans­lated into Chi­nese in 2004. Along with giv­ing an overview of the nu­mer­ous mag­nif­i­cent pro­jects of the Schlaich Berg­er­mann team, it also cov­ers de­tailed con­struc­tions. Lav­ish pages take turns with com­pact text-im­age stretches, lead in by chap­ter in­tro­duc­tions re­sem­bling an in­dex.

The ex­hi­bi­tion “High En­ergy – En­gi­neer Build­ing Cul­ture“ pre­sents the works of en­gi­neers Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berg­er­mann from al­most 40 years of prac­tice. The three key top­ics of the ex­hi­bi­tion are: con­struc­tion and art, con­struc­tion and so­ci­ety, con­struc­tion and ecol­ogy. Moni­teurs de­signed the con­cept and graph­ics of the ex­hi­bi­tion. Nu­mer­ous pro­ject ex­am­ples are shown on work­ing benches and archive ta­bles and on ex­tend­able graphic pan­els, giv­ing the viewer an un­der­stand­ing of the ground­break­ing ap­proach and the work­ings of the two en­gi­neers.

The Ger­man mu­seum for ar­chi­tec­ture, DAM, ded­i­cated an ex­ten­sive ex­hi­bi­tion to the work of the civic en­gi­neers Jörg Schlaich and Rudolf Berg­er­mann and their team. This tour­ing ex­hi­bi­tion could be viewed in many cities around the world, in­clud­ing Ham­burg, Lau­sanne, Yale and Nan­jing to name but a few. This is the first com­pre­hen­sive ret­ro­spec­tive of these suc­cess­ful en­gi­neers, show­ing their en­gi­neer­ing feats in cor­re­la­tion with so­cial re­spon­si­bil­ity. The de­sign is like the ti­tle, light yet com­pre­hen­sive.