Stories
- Article
Designing death in the virtual city
Danger and death are fun when they’re virtual – and when they incorporate realistic elements. Now the tables are turned, as urban planners learn from game environments.
- In pictures
Florence Nightingale, Victorian design and the treatment of Covid-19
Discover how the design of Britain’s Nightingale hospitals, set up during the first national lockdown, is based closely on Florence Nightingale’s pioneering ideas for the most effective hospital layout.
- 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.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture / Iain Sinclair.
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-Date: 2018- Books
Musei per la scienza : spazi e luoghi dell'esporre scientifico e tecnico = Science museums : spaces of scientific and technical exhibition / Luca Basso Peressut ; [prefazione/preface, Fredi Drugman ; traduzione/translation, Barbara Fisher].
Basso Peressut, Luca.Date: [1998], ©1998- Books
Welcome to Design and Health 4th world congress and exhibition Frankfurt 22-26 June 2005 (WCDH2005).
Date: 2005- Books
- Online
Suggestions and instructions in reference to (1) - sites, (2) - construction and arrangement of buildings, (3) - plans of lunatic asylums / issued by the commissioners in lunacy.
Great Britain. Lunacy Commission.Date: 1870- Pictures
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A baroque sculpture forming an allegory of dentifrice at the entrance to an international toothpowder exhibition. Drawing by A. Oberländer, ca. 1900.
Oberländer, Adolf, 1845-1923.Date: [1900?]Reference: 659905i