paimio sanatorium

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the Beistegui apartment’s roof garden^993 and was proselytising for mechanical ventila-


tion systems that operated on electrical motors. No viable hybrids in the area of heating,


water, sewage or electrical systems emerged in the Paimio Sanatorium project. Collabo-


ration with Radiator, which had started auspiciously, was discontinued and the building


project lost one of its innovators. We shall never know what subsequent generations


missed, as some potential collaborations or Latourian hybrids could not develop. It is


not possible to know beforehand what technological processes might have produced,


any more than we know what kind of a process has preceded a completed building.^994


993 Colomina 1998 [1994], pp. 301–306.
994 Latour and Yaneva 2008, pp. 80–89.
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