Skin, clothing, and dwelling: Max von Pettenkofer, the science of hygiene, and breathing walls

Gottfried Semper is often credited with originating the concept of the building as skin in architectural theory, but an alternative trajectory of this idea can be found in the mid-nineteenth-century science of hygiene. In Skin, Clothing, and Dwelling: Max von Pettenkofer, the Science of Hygiene, and...

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Main Author: Ekici, Didem
Format: Article
Published: University of California Press 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33715/