Stories
- Article
Two health centres, two ideologies
Two futuristic, light-filled buildings aimed to bring forward-looking healthcare to city dwellers. But the principles behind each were very different.
- Article
Homes for the hives of industry
By building workers’ villages, industry titans demonstrated both philanthropy and control. Employees’ health improved, while rulebooks told them how to live ideal lives.
- 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.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
Happy by design : a guide to architecture and mental wellbeing / Ben Channon.
Channon, BenDate: [2018]- Books
Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture / Iain Sinclair.
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-Date: 2018- Books
Arts of the environment / edited by Gyorgy Kepes.
Kepes, Gyorgy, 1906-2001Date: 1972- Books
Restorative cities : urban design for mental health and wellbeing / Jenny Roe and Layla McCay.
Roe, Jenny (Landscape architect)Date: 2021
- Pictures
- Online
Crimean War: appalling conditions as seen in the interior of the Russian Hospital in Sebastopol. Wood engraving after E.A. Goodall, 1855.
Goodall, Edward A.Date: 6 October 1855Reference: 21289i