Universal Design grew out of a disability rights movement and is growing in popularity among homeowners and designers as accessibility products also become more available and attractive. Building Biology specifically address ecological and biological health in buildings. How do the two relate, if they do at all?
Read MoreGermany, along with many European nations, was left in ruins after World War II. In the subsequent years as it rapidly rebuilt its economy and infrastructure, it saw the growth of over industrialised and overpopulated cities and towns.
People also began to notice strange illnesses after the World War. One of these was a doctor named Hubert Palm. He noticed a pattern between the ailments his patients were coming in with and their living in housing built post WWII using the new “chemically enhanced” technologies.
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