The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places 1790-1940

by Julie Collins

Book Overview

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, a time when the environment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032237643
• ISBN13: 9781032237640
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 218 Pages