Lucius Burckhardt, a young don at HfG Ulm and ETH in Zurich, later editor-in-chief of the magazine werk, professor at the Gesamthochschule Kassel from 1973 to 1997, in the meantime chairman of the Deutscher Werkbund, was indubitably one of the most unusual "lateral" thinkers of our day. Johann Peter Luth worked as an architect, before becoming director of the Saarland State Conservation Office in 1985. His colleague Georg Skalecki is responsible for drawing up inventories and for building research there. Hans Meyer-Veden studied photography from 1955 to 1959 in Hamburg. He taught at the Fachhochschule Dortmund and at the Fachhochschule Kiel.