Good booking: The best new titles that celebrate sustainable living

Sustainability manifests in various forms but, fundamentally, it’s about the way we live with the things we use. Hot off the press, these books unpack various aspects of sustainable living, from architectural practice to product design.

There are holistic spaces that prioritise mind and body, buildings that embrace the outdoors, and regenerative spaces that champion circular living. All show a design that’s good for the planet and good for us can also be beautiful.

BUILDING FOR CHANGE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF CREATIVE REUSE, GESTALTEN

With reuse and adaptation at its core, this book probes how we can transform our existing built environment into something novel and exciting for a conscious future. As a response to the climate crisis, the notion of transformation rather than fabrication opens up space for creativity and longevity. There is a sofa factory turned co-working hub, a series of modular structures that can be transformed as needed, and the recycling of building materials — all incredible projects that reveal how creative reuse is essentially good design.

NATURE STYLE, THAMES & HUDSON

Much like living in nature, living with it inside your home can improve mental and physical health. Nature Style offers a simple guide to styling the home for health and harmony, using nature as a blueprint. It’s a hands-on how-to guide with tips, savvy tricks and a glut of beautiful spaces to use for inspiration, exploring the concept of biophilic styling through plant and material choice, using shape and form and selecting views that celebrate nature.

LIVING IN THE FOREST, PHAIDON EDITORS

One of the tenets of sustainability is to live harmoniously with nature — and Living in the Forest spectacularly demonstrates this with 50 remarkable homes built amid the trees. Demonstrating that green living can be contemporary, considered and design-savvy, each of the covetable homes in this book works with its environment, celebrating it, whether in jungle, evergreen, forest or woods. Discover the joy of tree houses built to morph into the wood- land, eco homes set in dense Brazilian jungle, houses built so as not to disturb trees and others that open up to bring the trees (and their inhabitants) inside.