Could one not say that brutalism was invented in parallel in Great Britain and Baden-Württemberg? Max Bill’s programmatic building celebrates the combination of concrete and unplastered brick walls with a similar “rhetorical” surfeit as the Smithsons did with their “as found” themes in the Hunstanton School.

After the college was closed in 1968 the building was used and converted by Ulm University. Renovation and restoration from 2010 to 2014, since 2011 used by the HfG-Archiv.