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The firm schlaich bergermann partner has been designing and building ambitious civil engineering projects around the world for more than thirty years. Its portfolio ranges from long-span support structures and bridges to high-rises, special-use buildings and leading-edge solar power stations. The wellspring of the firm´s innovative work lies in its unique planning culture. Beneath the Surface showcases this culture through sketches, drawings, photographs and texts from a wide selection of projects realized by schlaich bergermann partner . This impressive, richly illustrated volume brings into relief the firm´s philosophy and the methods of its interdisciplinary engineers as they work together on equal footing with architects.

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schlaich bergermann partner, independent consulting engineers, Stuttgart, Berlin, New York, SÆo Paulo, Shanghai, Paris

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