{"product_id":"sick-architecture-isbn-9780262049689","title":"Sick Architecture","description":"\u003cb\u003eA thought-provoking essay collection about how architecture and sickness are surprisingly interwoven—from Ancient Greece to present-day New York City.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllnesses, 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, \u003ci\u003eSick Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e highlights a topic that has shaped our lives from the very beginnings of architecture to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSick Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the sicknesses recognized by the medical profession to ask: What aspects of society may be ill, in need of care, or subject to pathologization? Similarly the book goes beyond physical buildings and cities to interrogate architecture’s policy protocols and spatial logics. Its thirty-five diverse essays explore moments in global history when shifting notions of health became vectors for the development of architectural practice and discourse—as well as the reverse, when architecture acted as a reservoir and vector for illness.​​Introduction\u003cbr\u003eAtmospheres\u003cbr\u003eNicholas Shapiro, “Manufactured Home Syndrome”\u003cbr\u003eMaxwell Smith-Holmes, “Contamination Spread Questions and Answers”\u003cbr\u003eIason Stathatos, “Hunger Architecture”\u003cbr\u003eAngelika Ellen Joseph, “Alcohol After the Apocalypse”\u003cbr\u003eJessica Varner, “Toxicology at the Werkbund”\u003cbr\u003eMark Wigley, “Chronic Whiteness”\u003cbr\u003eXhulio Binjaku, “Vitamin D Architecture”\u003cbr\u003eMarie de Testa, “Hysteria as Scenography”\u003cbr\u003eKara Plaxa, “Boys will be Boys”\u003cbr\u003eEdna Bonhomme, “Contagion on the Plantation”\u003cbr\u003eBorders\u003cbr\u003eGuillermo Sanchez Arsuaga, “Space of Inspection within the Medicalized Border”\u003cbr\u003eJeremy Lee Wolin, “‘The Finest Immigration Station in the World’”\u003cbr\u003eRebecca Kellawan, “Normalizing Prejudice: Gold Rush Healthcare and the Rise of Modern Hospitals in San Francisco”\u003cbr\u003eClemens Finkelstein, “Planetary Disequilibrium”\u003cbr\u003eDante Furioso, “Sanitary Imperialism”\u003cbr\u003eSimon De Nys-Ketels and Johan Lagae, “Cordon Sanitaire between Plan and Reality”\u003cbr\u003eShivani Shedde, “Small Family, Happy Family, Housed Nation”\u003cbr\u003eChenchen Yan, “The Birth of a Modern Chinese Sanatorium”\u003cbr\u003eEmily Apter, “Live Free or Die? Psychopolitical Infrastructures of Denialism”\u003cbr\u003eBodies\u003cbr\u003eDavid Gissen, “Disabling Form”\u003cbr\u003ePatrick Jaojoco, “Autistic Spatiality”\u003cbr\u003eGideon Boie, “Models of Inclusion”\u003cbr\u003eAlexandra Sastrawati, “Depressed Worlds”\u003cbr\u003eMeredith TenHoor, “Care Beyond Biopolitics”\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Bergbauer, “Prosthetic Village”\u003cbr\u003eIbiayi Briggs, “Body Culture and Contrology”\u003cbr\u003eGiuseppina Scavuzzo, “Negation and Deinstitutionalization”\u003cbr\u003eHolly Bushman, “Regel-ated Bodies”\u003cbr\u003eAn Tairan, “Touching, Disease, and the Sacred Artifact”\u003cbr\u003eLandscapes\u003cbr\u003eBrooke Holmes, “On the Nature of Plato’s Embodied City”\u003cbr\u003eBeatriz Colomina, “Diary of a Disease”\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Povinelli, “The Virus: Figure and Infrastructure”\u003cbr\u003eIvan L. Munuera, “Lands of Contagion”\u003cbr\u003eGizem Sivri, “Desert Fever: Harvesting the Sun, Colonizing the Land”\u003cbr\u003eAngela H. Brown, “The Immunocompromised Home”\u003cbr\u003eSamia Henni, “Radioactivity in the Sahara”\u003cbr\u003eFabiola López-Durán, “Fantasies of Whiteness”\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Bios\u003cbr\u003eBack Matter\"\u003ci\u003eSick Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e confronts our worsening apocalyptic condition head-on...At its core lies a provocative claim: that architecture serves as both metaphor and mechanism for human dysfunction, a frame through which to read our collective impairments.” —Noah Chasin for \u003ci\u003e4Columns\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"A quinine-laden gin and tonic, Pilates exercises, Franco Basaglia’s bedside tables, Vitruvius’s liver, Manzoni’s infamous column, generous doses of streptomycin and tons of DDT mixed with whitening paints, volcanic eruptions, and vast—indeed countless—mosquitoes. This is, to say the least, an unusual assemblage for a volume on architecture, yet it proves indispensable for a rigorous anamnesis of the millennia-long relationship between the art of building and disease, understood here in its broadest range of nuances and ambiguities.\" —Gabriele Neri, Associate Professor of History of Architecture at Politecnico di Torino, ItalyBeatriz Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and the author of \u003ci\u003eX-Ray Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e and other books.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233548906725,"sku":"NP9780262049689","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262049689.jpg?v=1767736599","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sick-architecture-isbn-9780262049689","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}