Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The scale of the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and impact, unprecedented in modern history for about a century, urges all of us engaged in the design fields to offer contributions in order to curb, mitigate, and resolve the catastrophic situation that public health is facing worldwide as public health and environment are closely interconnected.This crisis, though, like others in the past, may also offer opportunities.The history of architecture, design and urbanism is rich of critical advancements that ended up to stay and change our lives, but ones that precisely resulted from creative reactions from public health crises.Modern architecture, for one, is an example.Corbu's prophetic visions of the early 1920s (a century ago!), while outlining a path "toward an architecture," return to resonate with fascinating timeliness:
Source: The Plan Journal
Author: Maurizio Sabini
Institution: Gheskio Centers
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3215224303