Clearing the Air

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Notes

¹ Donald MacKenzie, “Be Grateful for Drizzle,” London Review of Books, 36, no. 17 (September 11, 2014): 27–30.

² Ibid.

³ William Wan, “China’s Air Pollution Prompts Creative, Sometimes Wacky, Solutions,” The Washington Post (January 25, 2014). Available online: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/chinas-air-pollution-prompts-creative-sometimes-wacky-solutions/2014/01/25/dc7d47fa-82a6-11e3-bbe5-6a2a3141e3a9_story.html/.

⁴ USA Today 10 Best, “Miracle Mile Indoor Rainstorm” (n.d.). Available online: http://www.10best.com/destinations/nevada/las-vegas/las-vegas/attractions/miracle-mile-indoor-rainstorm/.

⁵ Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, trans. Horace C. P. McGregor (London: Penguin, 1972), 2: 17.

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Helen Mallinson

Helen Mallinson is a Director of Cass Culture, Chair of Research and a principal lecturer in architecture at the Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University. She currently teaches history and theory and has a background in studio teaching and as head of school. For several years her research interests have centered on the “forgetting of air” in architectural discourse. In 2009 she completed a Ph.D. at the London Consortium on the topic of air in seventeenth-century philosophy, religion and science in England entitled “The Gnat and the Vacuum: Robert Boyle and the History of Air.” The focus of her research has generated a series of conference papers and published essays that explore different aspects of the relationship between air and architecture.