“The white coat acts as a hinge between the visible and the invisible. Its smooth surface actively resists the unseen bacterial sources of disease. It is a kind of inhospitality to disease.”
– Scholar
Mark Wigley, on the pathology of “chronic whiteness” in modernist architecture. Part of
Sick Architecture, Wigley’s text is one of two dozen essays in a research project cataloguing how “past health crises are inscribed into the everyday.”
