Insight

Strictly ordered chaos
Photos: Suerkemper Architekten

“Our office is staffed by individualists”, say Volker Swiatkowski (bottom right) and Andreas Suerkemper, “so we work with a combination of strict order and organised chaos.” The designs of Stuttgart-based architects Swiatkowski-Suerkemper are famous for their clarity and the wide scope of their vision, with so-called “unregulated elements” to generate tension and catch the eye. The two partners who run the office call it “special accents within a fixed pattern”.