Abstract/Hauptbeschreibung

The book "The ABC of Sustainable Design" is characterized by clear and logical content, professional and accessible speech, correct justifications and unambiguous answers to the set goals. The topic is painfully relevant. She emphasizes problems we haven't paid attention to in a long time. We ignore facts that scream us to apologise them. The development brings its usefulness as a study, an explanation, a prescription and a reference. There is a focus put on the application of traditional materials and the relationship to their impact on people and the environment. It points to their application and individual production as one of the main directions for the future. Undoubtedly, the author knows the topics in depth and as an inventive artist makes the connection of the two endpoints of a chain - NATURE and DESIGN. The content of the work is based on the following basic points: - what is sustainable design - research and personal views; -a presentation of a number of natural materials and ideas that nature itself gives us; - vegetation as an oasis and а part of the urban environment; - a modern vision of the human-nature relationship; - the life cycle of the materials and their rational use and processing and creating art from waste and re - cycled materials; - a return to traditional creative and technological approaches applicable to the principles of design and modern lifestyle’; - the factors that make us turn to where we came from so to use gratefully what we have. To all this the author attaches many pictorial examples, as a visual proof of what she writes. Among these examples there are her own creative solutions created for children. Both these solutions and the presented projects on the topic at the end of the book give a personal example of the work to which she is dedicated. The presented design works of artists provoke ingenuity and make people think about eco-building and environmentally friendly living. I find this work extremely useful and interesting and it would be curious for everyone, no matter what they do, because there is an additional and very important quality – to educate.