Living with Buildings - Iain Sinclair

'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... stories weave and unweave over the book's course patterning thought into a complex built environment at once disorientating and illuminating.' Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves and are shaped in return by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep work socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us but they can also heal us. We project our hopes and fears onto buildings while they absorb our histories. In Living With Buildings Iain Sinclair embarks on a series of expeditions - through London Marseille Mexico and the Outer Hebrides. He explores the relationship between sickness and structure and between art architecture social planning and health taking plenty of detours along the way. Walking is Sinclair's defensive magic against illness and as he moves he observes his surroundings: stacked tower blocks and behemoth estates; halogen-lit glasshouse offices and humming hospitals; the blackened hull of a Spitalfields church and the floating mass of Le Corbusier's radiant city. And he peels back layers of life. A father and his daughter who has a rare syndrome visit the estate where they once lived. Developers clink champagne glasses as residents are 'decanted' from their homes. A box sculpted from whalebone thought to contain healing properties is returned to its origins with unexpected consequences. Part investigation part travelogue Living With Buildings brings the spaces we inhabit to life as never before.

TITLE: Living with Buildings

AUTHOR: Iain Sinclair

SKU: 9781788160469

PUBLISHER: Profile Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 20/09/2018

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 208

BINDING: Hardback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 144 mm x 222 mm x 23 mm

WEIGHT: 376 gr