Description
Book SynopsisArchitecture and Health recognizes the built environment and health as inextricable encouraging a new mind-set for the profession. Over 40 international award-winning projects are included to explore innovative design principles linked to health outcomes. The book is organized into three interdependent health domainsindividual, community, and globalin which each case study proposes context-specific architectural responses. Case studies include children's hospitals, rehabilitation facilities, elderly housing, mental health facilities, cancer support centers, clinics, healthy communities, healthcare campuses, wellness centers, healing gardens, commercial offices, infrastructure for developing countries, sustainable design, and more. Representing the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia, each author brings a new perspective to health and its related architectural response.
This book brings a timely focus to a subject matter commonly constricted
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“One of the traps experienced healthcare architects fall into is replicating the status quo. The primary strengths of this book are, firstly, the diversity of ideas and approaches from all over the world force the reader to explore new ideas and approaches. Secondly, the use of case studies takes ideas beyond the conceptual and demonstrates their execution, thereby, helping the reader to understand the applicability to his or her situation. I would highly recommend this book to those who want to step back and reflect on the greater issue of health and environment.”
Joyce Durham RN, AIA, EDAC, Director of Facilities Strategic Planning; New York-Presbyterian
"Architecture and Health reflects the broadened identity of both the architecture and health professions: architects now recognize that their responsibilities include the global built environment, while health professionals have begun to embrace global health and well-being as central to their work. The essays in this book also help us understand why that change has happened: both our built environment and our health system are unsustainable, inequitable, and unaffordable in their current form."
Thomas Fisher Professor, School of Architecture; Director, Minnesota Design Center, University of Minnesota
Table of ContentsForeword
Acknowledgments
Key Terms
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- Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health
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Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm
Part 1: Individual Health
- Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups
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Allen Buie
- Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home
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Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack
- Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
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Brenna Costello
- Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health
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Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs
- Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres
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Jamie Mitchell
Part 2: Community Health
- Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses
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Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs
- Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia
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Klavs Hyttel
- A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital
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Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson
- Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning
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Harm Hollander
- The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health
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Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve
- Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point
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Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman
- Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic
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Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg
- From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design
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Megan Stone
Part 3: Global Health
- Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery
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Bart van der Salm
- Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center
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Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel
- Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment
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Robin Guenther
- A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations
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Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway
- Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System
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Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters
- Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design
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Mara Baum
- The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions
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Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield
- Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health
David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Index
