Tuberculosis

Check out this great article by Rebecca Gross, a noted design historian, researcher and writer. She discusses how the tuberculosis pandemic in the late 1800s paved the way for the modernist architecture we know today.

It turns out that among other things, doctors were prescribing sunshine and fresh air as essential treatments to beat the disease. Many notable architects of the day became obsessed with illness and spent years considering how architecture could better connect people to nature and its healing benefits.

We’re on the same quest today. Our hope is that our acute focus on natural light, natural air and natural things invites the same healing influence, whatever the modern ailment.