J. Mayer H.

Jürgen Mayer H. is a bridge builder between modernism and postmodernism and is constantly searching for the boundaries of architecture. He and his office 'J. Mayer H.' work at the interfaces of architecture, communication design and new technologies. His buildings seem to have a common concept: the separation between floor, wall and ceiling is abolished, everything merges into one another. Among his most spectacular buildings are the museum 'Danfoss Universe' in Nordborg, Denmark, which resembles a cloud formation, the new refectory in Karlsruhe with its elastic-looking sandwich construction and, last but not least, "Metropol Parasol", a mushroom-like giant structure in the middle of the old town of Seville, the creation of which is the focus of the film. Other projects include the villa 'Dupli.Casa' near Ludwigsburg, the office building 'AdA1' in Hamburg and the "Sarpi Border" checkpoint on the border between Georgia and Turkey. The film by Claudius Gehr provides an almost complete retrospective of the visionary Berliner's work using examples from architecture, product design, graphics and art.