The Future of a Physical Campus in the Digital World

Description

Pandemics have changed architecture many times in the history. For example, tuberculosis shaped modernism, when sleek functionalist architecture such as Alvar and Aino Aalto’s Paimio Sanatorium was thought to be part of the cure.

Pandemics have usually led to big cultural changes. Norway suffered the consequences of the Black Death for 200 years, resulting in foreign hegemony in culture. Cholera in the 19th century London led to cleaning the Thames, building a waste water system and public parks. Tuberculosis pandemic in a way gave birth to functionalist architecture. 

The change to previous post-pandemic situations is now that we don’t rely only to the physical world as earlier generations did and thus as drastic changes in the environment are not likely to come.