The ‘+’ in their name stands for the various partners from the worlds of art, science, music, etc. which architects Arno Brandlhuber and Bernd Kniess bring into their projects. Guidelines established together with these partners ensure that the standards for unusual architectural solutions developed by b&k+ are maintained.

All the projects are accompanied by inventions which are also part of the unique charm of the buildings. Photographer Marc Raeder has captured this particular aesthetic quality for his series of pictures at the beginning of the book.

The book itself is also a kind of invention – an index with chapters entitled Landscape, Material, Structure, Object and Tools. A manual which can be used as a set of instructions and which demonstrates the processual nature of successful architecture today through the example of b&k+’s work.