cultures, can be enhanced particularly well along seven "paths of thought", each of which brings together architecture and its neighbouring arts. 1. the study of the local situation. The natural cosmos and the built environment around it. 2. the characteristics of our self, body and body culture 3. the ideal rules of Euclidean geometry 4. the neighbourhood 5. the design of the inside in relation to the outside 6. the movements of the body, an elementary time structure 7. the transience of all things and conditions Just as architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture and texts are interlinked in Wolfgang Meisenheimer's work, so too is the book design conceived by Uli Meisenheimer: The viewer is constantly stimulated to make his own discoveries by parallels between the disciplines.