Ein Tiny House ist viel mehr als nur ein sehr kleines Haus. Es ist ein Lebenskonzept, das Fragen an die Zukunft stellt - von der grundsätzlichen Frage nach der Finanzierung des Traums vom Eigenheim über komplexere Abwägungen, etwa ob der Verzicht auf materiellen Luxus mehr Freiheit bedeutet, bis hin zu gesellschaftlichen Fragestellungen wie jener, wie wir mit den Ressourcen unseres Planeten umgehen.

In diesem Band werden bemerkenswerte Beispiele von meisterhaft umgesetzten Lösungen für K...

Station is a celebration of modern railway architecture, from a brutalist signalbox in Birmingham to the futuristic snake-like footbridge at Koge Nord station in Denmark, taking in romantic station hotels, bustling interchanges and the latest railway innovations along the way.

There's no two ways about it: life is better by the beach. The salty air, the sound of the waves and, above all, the relaxed way of life. This low-key attitude to living manifests itself in how we decorate our homes by the sea.

Life's A Beach takes readers into beach homes around the world - from the hills of New Zealand to beaches of Brazil to the remote islands of the Aegean - exploring the many ways to decorate a cozy home by the sea. Handmade touches, natural materials and eclec...

Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.

No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough ma...

Discover the essential culture of Majorca through the work of local architects and interior designers who are shaping the lifestyle of the Mediterranean island today.

A colour illustrated study of some thirty houses in various rural environments which have been built or converted or rehabilitated for modern comfortable living.

Over gebouwen en hun omgeving, over wat gebouwen betekenen voor hen die er gebruik van maken, over de atmosfeer van het gebouw dat is gemaakt en wat daarvan nog resteert op de dag van vandaag, daarover gaat dit boek.De beschreven gebouwen zijn van de hand van Kees Rijnboutt. Uit zijn omvangrijke oeuvre, dat loopt van 1964 tot aan vandaag, is een selectie gemaakt van bijna dertig werken. Van elk van die werken zijn nieuwe foto's gemaakt, voor het merendeel in zwart-wit, die de gebouwen en hun ...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods. A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reve...