The architect Peter P. Schweger has called his work -a critical continuation of Modernism, - by which he adapts those principles with sensitivity to specific environments and historical context. This approach has earned him and his firm a slew of commissions and international prizes, from a restaurant in Hanover's Baroque Herrenhauser Gardens, its shape alluding to the garden's hedges but with a contrasting frosted-glass facade, to a redesign of the German Bundesrat plenary chamber in Berlin, the transparent ceiling signifying democratic openness (while solar panels save energy). He even...