Happy to share that my article is forthcoming in Volume 59, Issue 6 of Leonardo (MIT Press).
In November 2014, I spent a week at the Ordzhonikidze Sanatorium in Kislovodsk, completed in 1937 by the workshop of Moisei Ginzburg. The essay combines fieldwork, architectural history, and personal notes to read the sanatorium and its territory through my framework of “Constructed Geographies,” which treats the built environment as a spatial argument about the working body that outlives the state that produced it.
It traces the building’s contested style, its debt to Soviet biomechanics and Le Corbusier, its completion during the Great Terror, and the ornamental program that recent scholarship attributes to Ivan Leonidov. When a healing environment loses its political program, atmosphere is what survives, and the essay reads it as historical evidence.
