IBM Campus 1972–2009 Stuttgart-Vaihingen

Part of photographer Andreas Gehrke’s powerful narrative series on dormant modernist buildings. Vacant work spaces that once hosted business enterprises playing a significant role in shaping the political, social and economic face of post-war Germany.

Designed by Germany’s most celebrated post-war modernist architect Egon Eiermann, this campus complex near Stuttgart was home to the Germany offices of US technology and consulting giant IBM from 1972 to 2009.