The new study authors conclude that "architects and lighting professionals designing building facades and rooms with more or less access to daylight may play a role in influencing the microbial communities of indoor dust." Indeed, architects and lighting professionals have known this for years. In his first major book, Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier wrote that you should "teach your children that a house is only habitable when it is full of light and air, and when the floors and walls are clear."
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