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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.

  • Article

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.

  • 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.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Somewhere in Between’s curator, Laurie Britton Newell

The exhibition's curator shares her secrets.

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  • The buildings for the Florence Exhibition, Florence, Italy: aerial view. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside, 1861, after B. Sly.
  • The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago: a general view of the exhibition buildings, seen from the Collonade. Chromolithograph with gouache after a painting by J.R. Key, 1894.
  • A World Fair exhibition site, United States of America: a classical style building by a lake. Photograph, ca. 1900.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring a dinosaur skeleton. Photograph, 1904.
  • Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity / Drawn and engraved by J. & H.S. Storer, exhibiting remains of antiquity, public buildings, and picturesque scenery.
  • Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity / Drawn and engraved by J. & H.S. Storer, exhibiting remains of antiquity, public buildings, and picturesque scenery.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring a whale skeleton and life-sized whale model. Photograph, 1904.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the US Government building: natural history exhibit featuring stuffed wild animals: elks and a polar bear. Photograph, 1904.
  • A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.
  • The Palace of Art and Industry, exhibition of 1862: the interior, at the crossing, looking west. Wood engraving by W. E. Hodgkin, 1862.
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Events

  • Gallery tour

AD Tour of Living with Buildings

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Past

Part of Access Tours and Discussions

  • Audio described
  • Gallery tour

STT Tour of Living with Buildings

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Past

Part of Access Tours and Discussions

  • Speech-to-text
  • Gallery tour

Perspective Tour with Emily Sargent

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Part of Perspective Tours

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