Sick Architecture
$148.42
- Hardcover
360 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2025
Summary
Sick Architecture: Unveiling the Intertwined Histories of Health and Design
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, Sick Architecture highlights a topic that …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049689 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262049686 |
| Author: | Beatriz Colomina, Nick Axel |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 290mm x 218mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Sick Architecture 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 4Columns
About The Author
Beatriz Colomina
Beatriz Colomina is Howard Crosby Butler Professor of the History of Architecture at Princeton University and the author of X-Ray Architecture and other books.
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