A whole issue of the architectural magazine Bauwelt,being published in Berlin, was dedicatedto the completed building. The Institutes of Pharmacologyand Food Chemistry of the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main by FerdinandKramer, who had also built most of the other newbuildings on the campus, soon advanced to ahighly appreciated master work of modern postwararchitecture - but later it was nearly [...] years of intensive use and neglectedmaintenance rendered the rehabilitation of thebuildings indispensable. After a comprehensiverenovation by the architects SSP Schürmann-Spannel of Bochum, the concrete structure withits striking brise-soleil elements on the south sideand the lecture-hall cube detached from the mainbuilding, is not only again a convincing built monument,but also an exemplary example of a [...] for many years students of pharmacologyand food chemistry studied and experimented,160 scientists of the Biodiversity and ClimateResearch Centre (BiK-F) are researching the interactionof climate and [...] book provides a detailed description ofthe building, which dates from 1957 and whichwas completely reconditioned by the office ofSchürmannSpannel in the years 2009 to [...] pictorial section contains plans of the originaland present condition as well as photographsespecially made for this publication by Jörg [...] is preceded by Fabian Wurm's essay, whichnot only discusses the building in detail, but alsoaddresses the pressing question of convertingbuildings from the time after World War II.Fabian Wurm, a free-lance journalist, studiedliterature and sociology. He was editor of thedesign magazines design report and form formany years. Since 2012 he is a lecturer for designhistory at the Academy of Visual Arts inFrankfurt am Main; prior to this he was a visitinglecturer at the Staatliche Akademie der BildendenKünste Stuttgart. Jörg Hempel is a freelancearchitectural photographer, living in [...] 2007 he teaches architectural photographyat the Hochschule Rhein-Main and theHochschule Bochum, and prior to this he wasa visiting lecturer for architectural photographyat the Fachhochschule Dortmund.