Johannes Kottjé

Johannes Kottjé (* in Augsburg ) is a German architect and specialist book author .

Life

Johannes Kottjé studied architecture at RWTH Aachen . He finished his studies as a graduate engineer . Already during his studies he turned to building damage research and architectural journalism and after completing his studies worked for several years in Rainer Oswald's building expert office and in his Aachen institute for building damage research and applied building physics gGmbH . On the side he wrote his first books in the fields of architecture and building construction, partly together with Oswald. Today Kottjé lives in Marktredwitz and Königswinter and is self-employed as a building surveyor and author of architectural books and magazine articles.

Kottjé was especially popular with a larger audience through his books Housing made of Steel and PUR! The new simplicity of sophisticated residential buildings is known. Kottjé also dealt with building in existing buildings, for example in his volume New Living in Old Half- Timbered Houses . His books on built-in furniture and other individually designed furniture are all about interior design topics.

Fonts

• Steel houses. Contemporary architecture for light-flooded rooms. DVA, Munich 2003.
• Row houses, semi-detached houses. Build inexpensive and high quality with architects. DVA, Munich 2004.
• (with Rainer Oswald and Silke Sous): Weak points in inexpensive construction. Fraunhofer IRB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2004.
• Pure! The new simplicity of sophisticated residential buildings. DVA, Munich 2005.
• New roof extensions. Remodeling and increasing, demanding and economical. DVA, Munich 2005.
• (with Rainer Oswald and Silke Sous): Build inexpensive, avoid damage. DVA, Munich 2005.
• The new wooden houses. Build with a natural material. DVA, Munich 2006.
• Which house suits me? Construction, material, type. DVA, Munich 2006.
• ECO houses. Demanding houses with low maintenance costs. DVA, Munich 2007.
• (with Rainer Oswald and Klaus Wilmes): White tubs, used to a high standard. Fraunhofer IRB-Verlag, Stuttgart 2007.
• Life & Style. How singles and couples live. DVA, Munich 2007.
• This is how a wooden house is created. From planning to moving in. DVA, Munich 2007.
• New living in old half-timbered houses. Houses with charm, attractively converted and stylishly renovated. DVA, Munich 2008.
• Built-in furniture. Intelligent solutions in detail. DVA, Munich 2008.
• PURISSIMO. Current examples of minimalist residential buildings. DVA, Munich 2008.
• Living individually in terraced and semi-detached houses. Generous, unusual, attractive. DVA, Munich 2009.
• Bungalows and atrium houses today. Live comfortably on one level. DVA, Munich 2009.
• Modern living in the country. Live in a natural and contemporary way. DVA, Munich 2009.
• 10 houses. Designs by fabi architects. Shaker Media, Aachen 2010.
• Living between inside and outside. Winter gardens, terraces and other imaginative refuges. DVA, Munich 2010.
• Individual furniture design for offices and practices. DVA, Munich 2010.
• 55 stairs for residential buildings. Material, construction, spatial effect. DVA, Munich 2010.
• Built-in furniture, multifunctional furniture. Intelligent solutions in detail. DVA, Munich 2011.
• Houses that do you good: modern building and renovation in tried and tested forms. DVA, Munich 2011.
• Wooden houses today: build sustainably and inexpensively. DVA, Munich 2012.
• Individual interior design with furniture: overall concepts from the entrance to the top floor. DVA, Munich 2013.
• Floors: Attractive living examples for new buildings and modernization. DVA, Munich 2013.
• Modernize residential houses from the 1930s to 1960s: add, convert, renovate. DVA, Munich 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Kottjé in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website