List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The return of Dr Rieux
Responses to the pandemic
‘Distant’ as a new form of knowledge
Architecture after Covid
Chapter 1: A ‘parasite’ in the city
Occupying space
Architecture and illness
Virus, lab, city
The laboratorization of space
Chapter 2: The laboratorization of urban space
Deserted cities, empty buildings
Counting bodies
Spacing, distancing
Contactless lives
Sanitizing, face covering
The new ‘modulor’
Pandemic pictograms
De-centring the disease
The power of entrapment
Urban metamorphosis: the new technologies of containment and visibility
Chapter 3: Pandemic variations of design practice
Routines: the ‘magic’ of the office space
Slowing down: the return to the verbal, the written and the sketch
Stepping aside and speeding up: technological developments
New compositions: re-connecting with the ‘others’
New variants of practice
Conclusion: Architectural research extended to things
Historicity and virus
New reflexivity, new methods
Bibliography
Index