Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture / Iain Sinclair.

Main entry:

Sinclair, Iain, 1943- author.

Title & Author:

Living with buildings : and walking with ghosts : on health and architecture / Iain Sinclair.

Publication:

London : Profile Books : Wellcome Collection, 2018.

Description:

190 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Paperback edition printed 2019.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Move -- Christ Church: The Sickness and the Shadow -- Ex-Voto Detour -- Further -- John Evelyn's Mulberry Tree -- Golden Lane -- Radiant City -- Out -- Southampton Water -- Pilgrims, Herders and Hermits -- Spitalfields: Scintilla -- Select Bibliography.

Summary:

"In Living With Buildings, Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. He explores the relationship between sickness and structure, and between art, architecture, social planning and health, taking plenty of detours along the way. Walking is Sinclair's defensive magic against illness and, as he moves, he observes his surroundings: stacked tower blocks and behemoth estates; halogen-lit glasshouse offices and humming hospitals; the blackened hull of a Spitalfields church and the floating mass of Le Corbusier's radiant city ... Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781788160469 (hardback)
1788160460 (hardback)
9781788160476 (paperback)
1788160479 (paperback)
(eISBN)
9781782834465

Subject:

Architecture Health aspects.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society.
Human ecology.
Environmental health.
Social ecology.
Environmental Health
Architecture
Environment Design
Social Environment
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture Aspect psychologique.
Architecture et société.
Écologie humaine.
Hygiène du milieu.
Écologie sociale.
human ecology.
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Gebäude
Gesundheit
Gesundheitswesen
Soziologie
Architecture Aspect sanitaire.

Added entries:

Wellcome Collection, commissioning body, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305115
Call No.: BIB 250856
Status: Available

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