Wellcome Collection

Exhibition open: 4 October 2018 – 3 March 2019

How does our built environment affect us? This major exhibition about health and architecture examines the positive and negative influence buildings have on our physical and mental health.

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Architects, planners and designers can have a powerful influence on our health and self-esteem, as well as ideas around community and society.

We spend more time than ever within the structures of our cities, and more people than ever live in metropolitan areas. The recent tragedy at Grenfell Tower in west London, in which 72 people lost their lives, draws urgent attention to the connections between our homes and health, as well as to wider social and political priorities.

In this exhibition, examine some of the ways in which architecture and the built environment interact with concerns of health and wellbeing. From the slums of 19th-century London to the bold experiments of postwar urban planners to therapeutic spaces for people affected by cancer, look anew at the buildings that surround us and shape us.

The exhibition includes works by Andreas Gursky, Rachel Whiteread and Martha Rosler, buildings designed by Lubetkin, Goldfinger and Aalto, and a new commission by artist Giles Round exploring the role colour can play in making us feel better. You'll also be able to see an innovative mobile clinic developed to provide effective, adaptable healthcare in emergency situations.

Trailer images:
'Over London by Rail', from 'London, a Pilgrimage' - © British Library Board (1788.b.20)
‘Sanatory progress’, National Philanthropic Association, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘St Pancras Smallpox Hospital, London housed in a tented camp at Finchley’, Frank Collins, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘Bath Road’, Camille Pissaro, Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
‘Health of the Country, Comforts of the Town’, Reproduced with permission of Garden City Collection, Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
‘Greater London plan, 1944’, H.M Stationery Office, courtesy of Wellcome Collection
‘Light in patient room’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of Paimio internal and external’, Reproduced with permission of Alvar Aalto Foundation
‘Paris, Montparnasse’, Andreas Gursky, (C) Tate, London 2018
‘Lincoln Court, N16’, (c) Chris Dorley-Brown
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘Photographs of the Pepys estate’, Tony Ray-Jones RIBA Collections
‘InversionReflection What Does Balfron Tower Mean To You’, (c) Rab Harling
GLOBAL CLINIC Prototype 3 at Stage One, York, September 2018 (c) Stage One


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