Description
An investigation into the myriad practices of personal hygiene is attributed to a series of practices to preserve health and ultimately prevent the spread of disease. Is hygiene merely ‘cleanliness’ or is it the offshoot of religious practice? The Greeks defined hygiene as the personification of health while the French looked at hygiene as the ‘art of health.’
From public baths of the Greeks, Romans and Japanese to the development of soap and the Saturday night bath as a status symbol in the 1950s, bathing has become a social construct, an obsession as well as an architectural phenomenon.
This research will entice you to examine your daily ablutions….