Merck Innovation Center. Architektur HENN

“The MIC in Darmstadt, designed and planned by the internationally active architecture firm Henn, is … an exciting social-psychological experiment on the question of whether and to what extent innovations can really be reliably launched, implemented and made marketable in volatile teams, and this even in a sphere of calculatedly expanded semi-publicity that breaks all operational conventions, namely with external partners” (Christian Marquart). With Gunter and Martin Henn and their team, the client has unerringly chosen architects with a lot of experience with buildings for research, development, innovation management as well as universities.
Since photography has existed, all steps in the planning as well as the completion of an important building have been documented with camera images. This book is no exception to this concept and yet is somewhat different, “and this is to the credit of photographer Hans Georg Esch. With an immense experience gained worldwide, he has rethought his part in the documentation of construction and redefined it in many points” (Rolf Sachsse).