En imparfaite santé Cover

Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, CCA Montréal (eds.)

En imparfaite santé

La médicalisation de l’architecture

As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of today’s health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, and Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture such as: “An Architectural Theory of Pollution” and “Strange Bedfellows: Tuberculosis and Modern Architecture—How ‘The Cure’ Influenced Modernist Architecture and Design.” The book is published in collaboration with the CCA, Montreal on the occasion of the exhibition Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, curated by Giovanna Borasi, CCA Curator of Contemporary Architecture, and Mirko Zardini, CCA Director and Chief Curator.

As health becomes a central focus of political debate, are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda to address these concerns? Imperfect Health looks at the complexity of today’s health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Essays by Margaret Campbell, David Gissen, Carla C. Keirns, and Sarah Schrank deal with different aspects of the topic of health in the context of architecture such as: “An Architectural Theory of Pollution” and “Strange Bedfellows: Tuberculosis and Modern Architecture—How ‘The Cure’ Influenced Modernist Architecture and Design.” The book is published in collaboration with the CCA, Montreal on the occasion of the exhibition Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, curated by Giovanna Borasi, CCA Curator of Contemporary Architecture, and Mirko Zardini, CCA Director and Chief Curator.

 


“Imperfect Health does what any good book should do: it bridges multiple audiences through its content and layout.”
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French edition – also available in English

Also available as an ebook


 

Edited by CCA, Montréal, Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini

With contributions by Giovanna Borasi, Mirko Zardini, Carla C. Keirns, David Gissen, Margaret Campbell, Hilary Sample, Nan Ellin, Linda Pollak, Deane Simpson and Sarah Schrank

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

400 pages, 365 illustrations

hardback

2012, 978-3-03778-284-2
, French
CHF 55.00

Giovanna Borasi

Giovanna Borasi is curator for contemporary architecture at the CCA.

Mirko Zardini

Mirko Zardini (*1955 in Verona, Italy) is an architect, researcher, writer, and curator. He gained his degree in architecture at the Università Iuav di Venezia in 1980 and worked as a teacher at Syracuse, Miami and Harvard Universities, at ETH in Zurich and EPFL in Lausanne. He was Senior Consulting Curator of the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) from 2003-2005 before he was appointed its Director and Chief Curator in 2005.