What are the social needs that inspire the design of Finsbury Health Centre?
In this essay I will be discussing how the social needs of the borough of Finsbury inspired the design of Finsbury health centre, such as:
· Curing sunlight
· Waiting room
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Finsbury health centre is located in London in the borough of Finsbury on Pine Street, it was constructed and completed in 1938, and was at the forefront of modernist architecture at the time. The health centre was built for the needs of the people of Finsbury, and constructed to create a revolution in architecture. Finsbury Health Centre represents many issues in politics and in particular helped to combat many social issues at the time in Finsbury. Finsbury was described as a dark smoggy inner city …show more content…
Lubetkin designed the health centre for ‘ordinary people’ as he wanted to give equally to everyone, rather than to the elite. Lubetkin had a strong ideology between how architecture and politics should go hand in hand. Lubetkin had a complex, background as he grew up in pre-revolutionary Russia, from which he developed his ethos. He had left Russia in the early 1920s and had been a witness to the early changes after the revolution, where he developed his very clear idea of architectures social purpose. Lubetkin aimed at providing for everyone, and had a clear utopian vision of creating a better world, and expressed this through his many buildings. Lubetkin expressed his views particularly in Finsbury Health Centre where he created a service aimed at everyone and for all to use. This inspiration of social function is shown in the health centre, as Lubetkin provided a new vision by creating a building with free healthcare, for the people of Finsbury to use which had never been seen anywhere else in the country
In this essay I will be discussing how the social needs of the borough of Finsbury inspired the design of Finsbury health centre, such as:
· Curing sunlight
· Waiting room
·
Finsbury health centre is located in London in the borough of Finsbury on Pine Street, it was constructed and completed in 1938, and was at the forefront of modernist architecture at the time. The health centre was built for the needs of the people of Finsbury, and constructed to create a revolution in architecture. Finsbury Health Centre represents many issues in politics and in particular helped to combat many social issues at the time in Finsbury. Finsbury was described as a dark smoggy inner city …show more content…
Lubetkin designed the health centre for ‘ordinary people’ as he wanted to give equally to everyone, rather than to the elite. Lubetkin had a strong ideology between how architecture and politics should go hand in hand. Lubetkin had a complex, background as he grew up in pre-revolutionary Russia, from which he developed his ethos. He had left Russia in the early 1920s and had been a witness to the early changes after the revolution, where he developed his very clear idea of architectures social purpose. Lubetkin aimed at providing for everyone, and had a clear utopian vision of creating a better world, and expressed this through his many buildings. Lubetkin expressed his views particularly in Finsbury Health Centre where he created a service aimed at everyone and for all to use. This inspiration of social function is shown in the health centre, as Lubetkin provided a new vision by creating a building with free healthcare, for the people of Finsbury to use which had never been seen anywhere else in the country