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How slums make people sick

A newly gentrified corner of Bermondsey leaves little clue to its less salubrious history. But a few intrepid writers recorded the details of existence in one of London’s most squalid slums.

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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.

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Inside the mind of Living with Buildings curator, Emily Sargent

Curator Emily Sargent reveals why council estates and a Finnish TB sanatorium were chosen for the ‘Living with Buildings’ exhibition.

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Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis

Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.

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  • Archaeology: famous houses of France. Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.
  • A brick house with three gables, Well Street, Hackney, London, once used as a Priory. Engraving.
  • Powis House, Great Ormond Street, London, in 1714. Wood engraving after T. Bowles.
  • Two rural houses next to a stream; a woman and a child in the foreground. Lithograph by W.H. Pyne, 1806.
  • The Tower House, Bedford Park estate in Chiswick, London. Colour lithograph by M. Trautschold, 1882.
  • The staircase, and two details of the woodwork, at 49 Great Ormond Street, Holborn. Pencil drawing, June 1882, attributed to J. P. Emslie.
  • Building: plans of the four floors of a town house, showing the layout of flooring joists. Engraving by G. C. Jenkinson, 1847, after M. A. Nicholson.
  • Gate of the Hospital of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, Clerkenwell, London, surrounded by thatched domestic buildings. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.
  • Paris: convalescent home of Dr R. Lithograph by E. Walter, 1867, after L. Isabey.
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