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

Iain Sinclair

Living with Buildings: And Walking with Ghosts - On Health and Architecture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 September 2019
Pages
208
ISBN
9781788160476

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

Iain Sinclair

We 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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