How the 19th-century rebuilding of Britain's Houses of Parliament made air pollution visible
- Written by Timothy Hyde, Associate Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Palace of Westminster at dusk in 2007Diliff/Wikipedia, CC BY-SA
Impressionist painter Claude Monet was able to see beauty in the swirl of fog encompassing Britain’s Houses of Parliament at the end of the 19th century. Most people regarded it as a very unpleasant inconvenience. Today, Londoners recognize the sources of the city’s current...