"This brings to mind Marina Nicollier's final thesis project at Rice University, wherein she explored the medical effects of architectural design. Part of her project dealt with the history of sanitarium architecture and, from there, the health implications of modern architecture. She wrote:
Popular ideas about what constitutes a healthy environment gave rise to many of the components that became the formal trademarks of modernism – the flat roof was devised as a means to provide additional sunning surfaces for tubercular patients; while the deep verandas, wide private balconies, and covered corridors served as organizational tools to isolate contagious patients from the general staff."