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Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts – On Health and Architecture

Autor Iain Sinclair
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2019
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert MacfarlaneWe 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788160476
ISBN-10: 1788160479
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: B&W Illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Wellcome Collection
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Iain Sinclair's books include Downriver (winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Encore Prize), Lights Out for the Territory and The Last London.Living with Buildings is published in association with Wellcome Collection, a free museum and library that aims to challenge how we think and feel about health. Inspired by the medical objects and curiosities collected by Henry Wellcome, it connects science, medicine, life and art. Wellcome Collection exhibitions, events and booksexplore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.

Recenzii

A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.
One of Iain Sinclair's best books ... His walks are described with pithy lyricism. His moving accounts of friends and their complicated relationship to housing estates, hospitals and ancient rural sites, describe our attempts to remain healthy and humane in increasingly hostile environments
Iain Sinclair feeds us a rich diet of shrewd insights ... He leaves you gasping with the punch and pungency of hisimages