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Architecture Is a Tool to Improve Lives

Anna Heringer's Buildings Photographed by Iwan Baan
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Languages: English, French, German
Published/Copyright: 2025
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“Perfection blocks any form of participation and also causes an excessive consumption of resources.” In Form Follows Love, Anna Heringer describes her understanding of architecture.

For her new book, she traveled to Bangladesh with Iwan Baan to visit the buildings created there as well as her women's empowerment project, Dipdii Textiles.

Dutch photographer Iwan Baan is best known for his images that show life and interactions in architecture. In Bangladesh, he created intense and sensual images that, between documentation and art, bear witness to what architecture can achieve when it is not about representation but about social benefit.

  • The complementary photobook to Form Follows Love
  • METI School, DESI Center, kindergartens, birthplace in Hittisau etc.
  • New, previously unpublished photos: also Baan's pictures of Heringer's latest buildings in Europe

    • Author / Editor information

    Anna Heringer, Dominique Gauzin-Müller, UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecturearchitect

    Iwan Baan, Fotograf, Alkmaar, The Nederlands

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      Frontmatter

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      Contents

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      Foreword

      14
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      Introduction

      25
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      Plans

      51
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      Impressions of Bangladesh

      72
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      Buildings

      96
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      Return to Europe

      151
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      Textiles

      168
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      Epilogue

      194
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      Acknowledgements

      212
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      Picture Credits

      220
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      Imprint

      224
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    Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
    eBook published on:
    March 17, 2026
    eBook ISBN:
    9783035628678
    Hardcover published on:
    March 17, 2026
    Hardcover ISBN:
    9783035628647
    Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
    Main content:
    192
    Coloured Illustrations:
    200
    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035628678
    eBook ISBN: 9783035628678
    Hardcover ISBN: 9783035628647
    Keywords for this book
    Anadaloy; Architecture; Bangladesh; Illustrated Book; Germany; Austria; Photography; Architectural Photography; Forum St. Michael Traunstein; Clay Architecture; Clay Building; METI-School; Sustainable Building; Intuitive Building; Ecological Building; RoSana Rosenheim; Rammed Earth
    Audience(s) for this book
    Architekten, Studierende
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