Lyndon Neri: “A Place for Healing”

In this episode Lyndon Neri discuss with Hanna Harris Paimio Sanatorium as medical instrument. What is the master class Paimio Sanatorium gave us in how architecture and design can shape the future? Why do we need healing architecture today? What are the key perspectives for bringing it to fruition today? Join Hanna Harris and Lyndon Neri in Spirit of Paimio.

Lyndon Neri is founding partner of Neri&Hu, design and research office, an inter-disciplinary architectural design practice based in Shanghai. Through his practice, Neri has reinforced a core vision: to respond to a global worldview incorporating overlapping design disciplines for a critical paradigm in architecture, while believing strongly in research as a design tool, as each project bears its unique set of contextual issues.

Hanna Harris has a special multidisciplinary background as a Licentiate of Social Sciences and Urban Researcher. In her current position as a Chief Design Officer at the City of Helsinki she aims to position Helsinki as the most functional city in the world.

Paimio Sanatorium is a modernist masterpiece from 1930’s by Aino and Alvar Aalto.

https://paimiosanatorium.com/