The Architecture of Bathing

This engaging volume has no peer. I know of no other work of its scope or mission. If your architectural interest is communal bathing, this is your book.

Leonard Koren, author of Making WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Undesigning the Bath

This unique and impressive publication explores a dizzying array of bathing architectures, traversing buildings, landscapes, people, practices, theories and art. At once detailed, beguiling and thought-provoking, Pearson's polyamorous engagement with bathing lets the reader both learn and take delight.

Iain Borden, Vice-Dean Education and Professor of Architecture & Urban Culture, The Bartlett, University College London

Christie Pearson's The Architecture of Bathing is an enthusiastic, engaged, and adventurous journey through the hydraulic world. With gusto and refined physical knowledge she guides the reader through the architecture of the senses, a field neglected for ages and badly needed today.

Thomas A. P. Van Leeuwen, author of The Springboard in the Pond

"The Architecture of Bathing" by the architect and University of Waterloo professor Christie Pearson, surveys famous, beautiful, and idiosyncratic balneal buildings, along with such objects as tubs and pools that are the props for ablution. Pearson's bathing summary is comprehensive, both historically and geographically.

Literary Review of Canada

"Practically everywhere that bodies of water are accessible for public soaking, the architect and writer Christie Pearson has tried them out while taking glorious notes. Her book, 'The Architecture of Bathing: Body, Landscape, Art,' careens around in time and place and ponders 'the bath's utopian and dystopian aspects.'"

New York Times Book Review