Sick Architecture

“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“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, Italy

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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