Stories
- Article
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.
- 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.
- Interview
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.
- Article
The making of ‘Quacks’
How do you create a medical comedy that’s authentic and laugh-out-loud funny?
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Whewell, William (1794-1866)
Whewell, William, (1794-1866)Date: early 19th century - mid 19th centuryReference: MS.8007/8Part of: Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries- Videos
Great cemeteries of the world. Pt. 24, London - Kensal Green.
Date: 2002- Pictures
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Museum of Arms, Vienna, Austria: architectural details. Wood engraving by Heaviside, 1866, after B. Sly.
Sly, Benjamin, active 1841-1883.Date: 22 September 1866Reference: 23015i- Videos
La Basilica della Salute: a sanctury of art, faith and popular worship.
Date: 2003- Books
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The complete modern joiner, or a collection of original designs in the present taste, for chimney-pieces and door-cases, with their Mouldings and Enrichments at Large; Frizes, Tablets, Ornaments for Pilasters, Bases, Sub-Bases and Cornices for Rooms, &c. With a table shewing the proportion of chimneys with their entablatures, to rooms of any size: by N. Wallis, Architect.
Wallis, N.Date: [1772]