Building for Science Architecture of Max Planck Institutes

This book deals with over thirty buildings designed for Max Planck. Institutes by internationally active architects like Jurgen Adam, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Heikkinen and Komonen, Henn Architekten Ingenieure, Kraaijvanger Architekten and Henning Larsen. Commissions also include modernizing historical buildings, as in the conversion of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, or designing a scientific campus near Potsdam. With its additional material on laboratory technology, computer workplaces and cooperation between architects and clients, the book shows what architecture can do today at the highest possible scientific levels.