Between 1984 and 1988 she worked at Allison and Peter Smithson’s office in London and in 1989 she founded Sauerbruch Hutton Architects together with Matthias Sauerbruch. Hutton has been a commissioner for CABE, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment in the United Kingdom. The studio has received the Fritz Schumacher Architecture Prize and the Erich Schelling Architecture Prize, and has been awarded many times by the RIBA and the AIA. The Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau and the Brandhorst Museum in Munich, both in Germany, are two of the office’s most recently completed works.