Design in the age of pandemics
Courtesy Dion Neutra, Architect © and Richard and Dion Neutra Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
Throughout history, how we design and inhabit physical space has been a primary defense against epidemics The Lovell Health House, in Los Angeles, is one of those places that makes you green with envy. Perched on a hillside, the gleaming, all-white modernist house is bathed in sunlight and has floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. There?s a soaking pool, avocado trees in the yard, huge porches, and a roofdeck. It?s house porn with a higher purpose: Its architect?Richard Neutra, famous for his case study houses?designed it in the late 1920s for Philip Lovell, a nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, and Los Angeles Times columnist who believed in the virtues of a raw-food diet, ample sun, and fresh air. His home was tailored for a lifestyle of health and wellness?and it takes its cues from buildings designed to cure tuberculosis.
Courtesy Dion Neutra, Architect © and Richard and Dion Neutra Papers, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA
Designed by Richard Neutra, the Lovell Health House features details borrowed from tuberculosis hospitals.
For thousands of years, humans have looked to physical space to treat and cure sickness, just as Philip Lovell did. People have redesigned cities, infrastructure, architecture, and interiors all in the name of minimizing the r...
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