Alvar Aalto. (architect; design of the Paimio Hospital in Finland)
Interior Design, August, 1993 by Nasatir, Judith
Early model: Paimio Sanatorium, 1929 - 1933, makes a convincing argument that great design is not hazardous to health care.
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Nineteenth and early twentieth century literature is consumed by consumptives. Mimi, Camille and Violetta haunt our imaginations and people the opera stage; Hans Castorp asks, and begs, the larger existential questions posed by disease and its ambiguous role as a social catalyst. Tuberculosis, unlike leprosy, sexually transmitted diseases or polio, wafts through the ether and the ethos of that era and focuses the intensity of the late romantic and early modern ...
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