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Living with Buildings
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Author_Iain Sinclair
Balfron Tower
Barbican
Blackwall Tunnel
brutalist
buildings
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city planning
Concrete King
David Widgery
Eden Kotting
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estates
geography
Golden Lane Estate
Hackney
Hawksmoor
Health
human
John Betjeman
Kathy Acker
Le Corbusier
Lights out for the Territory
London Orbital
London Overground
Marine Court
modern environment
Pat Barker
Pepys Estate
Peter Ackroyd
Poundbury
psychogeography
Rebecca Hind
Robert Macfarlane
sick building syndrome
Sidney Little
social community
society
St Leonards-on-Sea
suburbanisation
That Rose-Red Empire
The Last London
tower block
toxic house syndrome
travel
Unité d’Habitation
urban development
urban planning
urban sprawl
urbanisation
walking
Will Self
Product details
- ISBN 9781788160476
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 130 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2019
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane
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.
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 books
explore a diverse range of subjects, including consciousness, forensic medicine, emotions, sexology, identity and death.
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