Architecture and medicine

According to Beatriz Colomina, architecture has always followed medicine. From early modernism on, architects have been seeking ways to create "healthy" buildings. The objects that they have been dissecting are arguably dead objects. In many respects, they failed, producing buildings that had countereffects on their occupants (such as the sick building syndrome). Another violence of this act is it that it gives a great pleasure to the architect: a pleasure to design...