Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-2018
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Buildings shape our lives and our health. They affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate us, make us sick or put us in danger, but they can also heal. We, in turn, make our buildings an extension of ourselves: our hopes, fears and vanities. The structures we choose to inhabit absorb our histories and leave traces for future generations to read. In 'Living With Buildings' Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of journeys - through London, Marseilles, the Outer Hebrides and Sweden - to explore the conflicted relationship between sickness and structure. He investigates the connection between art, architecture, social planning and health, and considers the notion that we refine our own pathologies until we locate the buildings in which to place them.
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Author:
Sinclair, Iain, 1943-, authorWellcome Collection, associated with work
Imprint:
London : Profile Books, 2018.
Collation:
190 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
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Notes:
"Published in association with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Living with Buildings' curated by Emily Sargent"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781788160469 (hbk)
Dewey class:
720.103
LC class:
NA2542.4
Local class:
720.103
Language:
English
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BRN:
2292392
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