New Books Series: Healing Spaces, Architecture and the Body

Co-hosted by Architecture Space and Society Centre and Centre for Medical Humanities, Birkbeck

3 February, 2-5pm, Keynes Library

You can now book your place here.

This event marks the publication of the collected volume Healing Spaces, Modern Architecture and the Body (Routledge, 2016).

We are delighted to welcome the co-editors Dr Sarah Schrank, Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, and Dr Didem Ekici, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Nottingham.

Programme:

Didem Ekici and Sarah Schrank, Introduction to the volume

Didem Ekici, The Physiology of the House: Modern Architecture and the Science of Hygiene

Sarah Schrank, Naked Houses: The Architecture of Nudism and the Rethinking of the American Suburbs

Respondent: Caitjan Gainty, Lecturer in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Kings College London

There will be a drinks reception afterwards.

 

All welcome!

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