Living with Buildings - And Walking with Ghosts - On Health and Architecture

'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us but they can also heal us. We project our hopes and fears onto buildings, while they absorb our histories. In Living With Buildings , Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London, Marseille, Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. A father and his daughter, who has a rare syndrome, visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone, thought to contain healing properties, is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation, part travelogue, Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.

Product details

• Authors: Iain Sinclair
• Publisher: Profile Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2019
• EAN: 9781788160476
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-047-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Wellcome Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Architecture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Medicine, MEDICAL / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / General, HISTORY / Social History, Memoirs, Social & cultural history, Travel writing, Coping with illness & specific conditions, Social and cultural history, Coping with illness and specific health conditions, Human Geography, Medicine and Nursing