CRADLE Book: Greened Architecture

Greened Architecture explores the integration of vegetation into the built environment as a key strategy for more sustainable and climate-responsive cities. Featuring green roofs, living façades, and interior greening systems, this approach shows how buildings can be transformed into dynamic, living environments that interact with natural systems.

The volume presents 52 international projects ranging from family homes to large office buildings that successfully implement greening strategies in diverse urban contexts. Supported by more than 550 photographs, drawings, and plans, the book provides a detailed visual and technical insight into how these systems are designed, constructed, and experienced.

In cooperation with the magazine CRADLE the new series of CRADLE & CIRCLE books deals with specific topics of sustainable, contemporary architecture. In the monothematic volumes, exemplary projects are presented with detailed text, numerous facts, as well as detailed and general plans, and images, which highlight the technical diversity, but also the design integration of the respective approaches.