The Brandhorst Museum by Sauerbruch Hutton

25 June—7 November 2010

In the Architecture Space

Brandhorst Museum, Munich, 2008 © Annette Kisling Adjacent to the Royal Academy Restaurant

Berlin-based Sauerbruch Hutton are acutely aware of the importance of colour and its ability to delight. This exhibition illustrates the practice’s newest building, the Museum for the Brandhorst Collection in Munich. Highly individual, with a signature façade, the museum is typical of the extraordinary work of Sauerbruch Hutton. Its distinctive exterior is clad in vertical ceramic louvres and glazed in families of eight colours that envelop a folded metal skin of two different hues. The effect is a kaleidoscope of pixelated colour that oscillates as you walk around the building.

Free
Opening times
10am—6pm every day except Friday
10am—10pm Friday

Annual Architecture Lecture

This exhibition accompanies the 2010 Annual Architecture Lecture delivered by Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch held on Monday 5 July. Read more and listen to a recording of this event

• Royal Academy of Arts