Julia Liese
Julia Liese has been part of the Detail editorial team since 2003. She studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart and at Tampere University of Technology in Finland. She gathered her first journalistic experiences as a student, and completed a traineeship at Detail before assuming the role of editor. Julia Liese has a special interest in ecological building and innovative housing concepts, and has had personal experience with building cooperatives: for the last 12 years she has lived in a collectively planned apartment building in Munich.
Photo: Boris Storz
Latest posts
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Working under shed roofs
Company Building in Nordhorn by Westphal Architekten
The production and administration building by Westphal Architekten impresses with its striking silhouette: the shed roofs of the production hall give the company headquarters an unmistakable identity.
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Interview with Lamia Messari-Becker
How do we shift to sustainable construction?
Lamia Messari-Becker is a leading voice on sustainable construction. The professor at the University of Siegen serves as a policy advisor on various committees. In an interview with Julia Liese, she discussed her ideas for how the construction sector can address climate change.
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Rural living in the city
Derzbachhof in Munich
After decades of vacancy, the listed 18th-century farmhouse was renovated, and a new building with 17 flats was added.
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Living in a brick tower
1721 Single-Family House by Harquitectes
In the dense urban fabric of Granollers, Harquitectes have replaced a low flat building with a residential tower out of brick, at the same time responding to the lack of sunlight with an equally-high atrium.
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Living close to nature
Retired Farmers’ House near Bern
The use of natural materials was the starting point for the design of this house developed by Jan Meier and Lena Unger for an elderly couple.
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Learning in a wooden building
Elementary School in Munich by Hirner & Riehl
Over the course of an infill project, Hirner & Riehl have built a new elementary school in Munich’s Haidhausen district. Right from the start, a wood-based construction was on the client’s wish list.