Stories
- Photo story
Exploring Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium
Seemingly small features help to make Alvar Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium in Finland one healing element for the tuberculosis patients he designed it for.
- In pictures
The history of sanatoriums and surveillance
The sanatorium treatment for tuberculosis was a curious combination of sunshine, fresh air, exercise and constant surveillance.
- 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.
Catalogue
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Sanatorium for consumptives, in rural surroundings. Photomechanical reproduction, 1903.
Date: 15 August 1903Reference: 24316i
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Sanatorium de Pen-Bron, Loire-Atlantique: façade. Process print, 1913.
Date: [1913]Reference: 554611i- Pictures
Sanatorium de Pen-Bron, Loire-Atlantique: the chapel and pumphouse. Process print, 1913.
Date: [1913]Reference: 554612i
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Sanatorium de Pen-Bron, Loire-Atlantique: general plan. Process print, 1913, after a drawing, 1896.
Date: [1913]Reference: 554662i- Books
Sanatorium of the south? : public health and politics in Hobart and Launceston, 1875-1914 / Stefan Petrow.
Petrow, Stefan.Date: 1995
