Liza Heilmeyer and Stephan Birk took a trip down memory lane with the magazine wettbewerbe aktuell: "The summer of 2003, after we graduated from the University of Stuttgart, brought record temperatures and, initially, gloom regarding our career prospects. There were no vacancies in architecture firms in the midst of the construction crisis. The general recommendation for graduates was to look for another field of activity. The fact that this did not happen in our case is thanks to Kurt Ernsting, a textile entrepreneur with an affinity for architecture in the Münsterland region..."
It all started in 2004/05 with the car park in Coesfeld-Lette.