The Ger­man mu­seum for ar­chi­tec­ture, DAM, ded­i­cated an ex­ten­sive ex­hi­bi­tion to the work of the civil 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.

Within the vi­sual con­cept for the in­ter­na­tional en­gi­neer­ing con­sul­tants schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner, words like con­struc­tion and com­plex­ity ver­sus sim­plic­ity are el­e­men­tary. The logo rep­re­sents schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner clearly, mem­o­rably and with con­fi­dence. The logo, three geo­met­ri­cally con­structed and char­ac­ter­is­tic let­ters, makes a bold state­ment. The name, along with its ab­bre­vi­a­tion, uniquely moulds the brand.
The en­ergy in the de­sign of the pre­sent logo ra­di­ates light­ness, vi­sion, pre­ci­sion and tech­nol­ogy, in both ana­logue and dig­i­tal forms. The logo will pre­serve its style, as it is no longer tied to the text. The swing of the let­ters is free and grace­ful. Logo – word mark and let­ter­ing, mo­men­tum, text and colour to­gether cre­ate the new cor­po­rate de­sign.

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.

schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner are not only civil en­gi­neers of the high­est cal­i­bre. Their scope of work also in­cludes the de­vel­op­ment of tech­nolo­gies for re­new­able en­ergy pro­duc­tion and re­search in the field of new ma­te­ri­als and their ap­pli­ca­tion in con­struc­tion. Moni­teurs as­sisted in the re­brand­ing of sbp schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner and cre­ated a new vi­sual iden­tity, in­clud­ing In­ter­net pres­ence, in close co­op­er­a­tion with the client and de­vel­op­ers. A wide data­base so­lu­tion with di­verse fil­ter func­tions makes it pos­si­ble to eas­ily find out about the var­i­ous pro­jects in all the fields of work. Sim­plic­ity with the high­est tech­ni­cal and aes­thetic stan­dards – these are re­flected in the web­site, which was re­designed in the course of the im­age re­launch.

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.

Moni­teurs de­signed the first iBook of the en­gi­neer­ing con­sul­tants schlaich berg­er­mann part­ner with the is­sue “move­able struc­tures”. The dig­i­tal medium pre­sents highly com­plex pro­jects, like the three-span fold­ing bridge Kieler Hörn or the BC Place Sta­dium in Van­cou­ver, in a vi­talised way with films, slideshows, im­ages, text and mu­sic. The styl­ish book in­cludes ten in­for­mal in­ter­views with the as­so­ci­ates, who talk about the for­ward-look­ing tech­nol­ogy and in­ven­tive ge­nius be­hind the pro­jects.

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.