Form Follows Love: Building by Intuition: from Bangladesh to Europe and beyond, 2024, Birkhäuser
Authors: Anna Heringer, Dominique Gauzin-Müller

"Beauty has nothing to do with money or finance, but everything to do with creativity and love," Anna Heringer, capturing the spirit of our time. 

Anna Heringer discusses her journey as an architect, her work with clay, and her commitment to building with local resources. Through her conversation with Dominique Gauzin-Müller, she reveals how architecture can positively impact both the environment and society.

Discover how sustainable design can shape a better world.

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Essential Beauty, 2022, Museo ICO

The catalogue of the exhibition ‘Anna Heringer. Essential Beauty’ covers the main works and projects by the German architect, from her buildings in Bangladesh – the METI and DESI schools or the Anandaloy Building –, in China – the bamboo shelters and the Ceramics Museum in Majiayao – and in Africa – an educational campus in Ghana or a kindergarten in Zimbabwe –, to the projects developed in Europe – the birth space in Austria, an Ayurveda center in Germany or an ecotourism project in Spain, in which she has incorporated traditional materials and techniques from those countries, such as rammed earth. Under the motto ‘Architecture is a tool to improve lives,’ Heringer has also impulsed initiatives like the Dipdii Textiles workshop for women in Bangladesh or the Laufen Manifesto for a more humane design culture.

Upscaling Earth: Material, Process, Catalyst, 2019, gta Verlag
Authors: Anna Heringer, Lindsay Blair Howe, Martin Rauch

This book presents a wide range of built and unbuilt projects as well as strategies for architecture using earth materials – a construction method that can be adapted to every culture and context. The authors give impressive examples to demonstrate groundbreaking technological innovations that highlight the advantages of this material, from its worldwide availability to its potential for complete recycling and climate-neutral production. The book also includes a focus on socially just implementation, in particular in emerging economies. This book reveals the incredible potential of earthen architecture – for people and for the entire planet.

The Future of Architecture, 2013, nai010 publishers
Authors: Herman Hertzberger, Anna Heringer, Jean-Philippe Vassal

In this pamphlet, Herman Hertzberger, Anna Heringer, Jean-Philippe Vassal and other contributors opt for ‘building as building up, composing, multiplying, improving and establishing: the opposite of decline’. Recognizing the need to change our lifestyle and the way we build if we want to preserve the planet for future generations, these pages offer optimism, making the case to abandon all preconceptions and imagine a new way of practising architecture that is not a derivative or feeble re! ection of today’s reality.