Hann a building really be without relations with the place in which it stands? May architecture freely express itself of all social, geographic and cultural influences without running danger, being exchangeable arbitrarily and and losing, besides, to substanzieller quality? The publication "Das offene Haus" devotes itself to these questions of high social and political topicality. She(it) sensitizes for one of all architecture underlying world knowledge and asks how can correspond to the human basic need after a unity by architecture and nature. Going out from the traditional Japanese house and the classic western modern age thinks the author Kriterien who can be applied as well on the contemporary architecture. In buildings of Rem Koolhaas, duke and de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Katsuyo Sejima, Ryue Nishizawa and a lot of other are explained this exemplarily. This approach in only mentally, intuitively and subjectively to experienced qualities of architecture gi