Double Header Book Launch for We the Bacteria and Sick Architecture

Join us for a double book launch embracing responses to illness and organisms with authors Guillermo S. Arsuaga, Beatriz Colomina, Ivan Lopez Munuera, and Mark Wigley who will discuss their recently released books probing sickness and bacteria’s symbiosis with architecture.

More about the books:

Sick Architecture highlights a theme that has shaped life from the very beginnings of architecture to the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Architects and doctors have always been entangled, influencing one another, though not always in sync. Drawing on a wide range of historical and contemporary case studies, this book extends beyond sicknesses recognized by the medical profession to ask: What aspects of society may be ill, in need of care, or subject to pathologization? Likewise, it looks beyond buildings and cities to interrogate architecture’s policies, protocols, and spatial logics. With thirty-five diverse essays, Sick Architecture traces moments in global history when shifting notions of health became vectors for architectural practice…