Architecture, mental health and the pandemic

Ricardo P. Carvalho
4 min readFeb 7, 2021

The effects of the matchbox industry in mental health during the pandemic

Matt Lee — Matchbox Collective

Since March 2020, the world stopped and, contrary to secluded nuns, we were obliged to confine in the tiny spaces of our houses. I mean, if you have one for yourself and your family, as most people in London spent their lockdown in a bedroom. A bedroom costing double, yet with space for a single bed only.

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Ricardo P. Carvalho

I am the son of Freud, Maria Callas and postmodernism. Žižek is my grandfather.