Stories
- Article
The building as tool of healing
When we’re ill, it’s not just medical care that helps to treat us. Architects have discovered that the right environment can play an important part too.
- Article
The art of soundproof design
Too much noise is more than annoying – it has serious negative effects on health and cognitive ability. Find out how designers and architects are mitigating the downsides of sound.
- Article
How architecture builds a profession of stress
Architects might produce buildings that enhance our health, but at what cost? Kristin Hohenadel explores architecture’s pressurised and stressful culture.
- Photo story
Exploring Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium
Seemingly small features help to make Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland one healing element for the tuberculosis patients he designed it for.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Architects
Date: July 1993Reference: PP/SUL/B/1/2/2/2Part of: John Sulston: archives- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Architects' specifications and plans for alterations to Ticehurst House, 1938 and 1968.
Ticehurst House HospitalDate: 1938-1968Reference: MS.6744Part of: Ticehurst House Hospital- Archives and manuscripts
Architects for Peace
Date: 1981-1988Reference: SA/MED/J/1/2Part of: Medact- Archives and manuscripts
"Architects for Health"
Date: 1997-1999Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/10Part of: Arts for Health: archive- Archives and manuscripts
"Architects and Builders: Ove-Arup"
Date: 1993-2003Reference: ART/AFH/A/1/9Part of: Arts for Health: archive