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Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body

Schrank, Sarah; Ekici, Didem

Authors

Sarah Schrank

Didem Ekici



Contributors

Didem Ekici
Editor

Sarah Schrank
Editor

Abstract

Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body brings together cutting-edge scholarship examining the myriad ways that architects, urban planners, medical practitioners, and everyday people have applied modern ideas about health and the body to the spaces in which they live, work, and heal. The book’s contributors explore North American and European understandings of the relationship between physical movement, bodily health, technological innovation, medical concepts, natural environments, and architectural settings from the nineteenth century through the heyday of modernist architectural experimentation in the 1920s and 1930s and onward into the 1970s. Not only does the book focus on how professionals have engaged with the architecture of healing and the body, it also explores how urban dwellers have strategized and modified their living environments themselves to create a kind of vernacular modernist architecture of health in their homes, gardens, and backyards. This new work builds upon a growing interdisciplinary field incorporating the urban humanities, geography, architectural history, the history of medicine, and critical visual studies that reflects our current preoccupation with the body and its corresponding therapeutic culture.

Citation

S. Schrank, & D. Ekici (Eds.), (2018). Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture, and the Body. doi:10.4324/9781315586298

Book Type Edited Book
Acceptance Date Jan 1, 2016
Online Publication Date Jul 15, 2016
Publication Date Apr 10, 2018
Deposit Date Jul 15, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Series Title Ashgate studies in architecture series
Edition 1st
ISBN 9781472470836
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586298
Keywords health, architecture, modernity
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2267731
Publisher URL https://www.routledge.com/Healing-Spaces-Modern-Architecture-and-the-Body/Schrank-Ekici/p/book/9781472470836
Related Public URLs https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315586298