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
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Corpus sanum in domo sano : l'architecture du mouvement en faveur de la salubrité domestique, 1870-1914 = Corpus Sanum in Domo Sano the architecture of the domestic sanitation movement, 1870-1914 / [text by Annmarie Adams, translation by Catherine Roberge].
Date: [1991], ©1991- Books
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House and home in modern Japan : architecture, domestic space, and bourgeois culture, 1880-1930 / Jordan Sand.
Sand, Jordan, 1960-Date: 2005, ©2003- Books
Domestic sanitation : a book on the modern principles and practice of domestic sanitation for those engaged in architecture, building, estate management, and surveying / F. Glanville Goodin and J. Downing ; foreword by Albert Edward Richardson.
Goodin, F. Glanville.Date: [1959]- Books
Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy's architecture and biopolitics / Beatriz Preciado.
Preciado, Paul B.Date: 2014- Books
On domestic boiler explosions and cylinder collapses : their cause and cure / by James Walker.
Walker, JamesDate: 1895