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.

Glass mesh domes as canopies re­fine build­ings and ur­ban build­ing en­sem­bles. This book is the first com­pre­hen­sive dis­play of de­sign, con­struc­tion and fil­i­greed cal­cu­la­tion of dou­ble-curved, wide-span glazed shells. The geo­met­ric prin­ci­ples of the de­sign of the shell struc­tures are clear and eas­ily com­pre­hen­si­ble, and are easy to use with com­mer­cial CAD pro­gramme mod­ules. Us­ing real-life ex­am­ples from the years 1989 to 2014, the lat­est meth­ods of form-find­ing cal­cu­la­tions and op­ti­mi­sa­tion through the com­plex in­ter­ac­tion of sta­tic equi­lib­rium, form and topol­ogy are ex­plained prac­ti­cally. The re­sults are in­tel­li­gent mesh de­signs with min­i­mal weight.

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.