Stories
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How I escaped my anxiety and depression through architecture and poetry
Social anxiety led him to introversion and silence. The brutalist architecture of London’s Barbican Estate inspired his liberation in poetry.
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Building a dream in the garden suburbs
In the late 19th century a ‘garden suburb’ promised a retreat from London’s dirt and crowds. See how this new concept was developed to appeal to the health concerns of the literary classes.
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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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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.
Catalogue
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Healing spaces, modern architecture, and the body / edited by Sarah Schrank and Didem Ekici.
Date: 2017- Pictures
King's College Hospital, London: the interior of the museum. Process print, 192-.
Reference: 552416iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
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Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the maternity ward. Process print, 1913.
Date: 1913Reference: 552273iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
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Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the out-patients' waiting hall. Process print, 1913.
Date: 1913Reference: 552272iPart of: Architecture illustrated.- Pictures
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Royal Free Hospital, London: the interior of the museum in the pathological block. Process print, 1913.
Reference: 552213iPart of: Architecture illustrated.