Sick Architecture

A thought-provoking essay collection about how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven--from Ancient Greece to present-day New York City. Illnesses, wellness, and architecture are inseparable. Medical professionals and architects have always been in a kind of dance, often influencing one another, though the dance is not always synchronized. Drawing from a wide range of historical and contemporary case studies from ancient Greece to twentieth-century India to present-day New York City,

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• Authors: Nick Axel, Beatriz Colomina, Colomina Beatriz, e-flux Architecture, Guillerm S Arsuaga, Guillermo S. Arsuaga
• Assisted by: Colomina Beatriz (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 21.10.2025
• EAN: 9780262049689
• ISBN: 978-0-262-04968-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; MEDICAL / Public Health, Individual architects & architectural firms, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Essays, Public health & preventive medicine, History of Architecture, Public health and preventive medicine, Individual architects and architectural firms