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Architecture 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 Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Key Terms

  2. Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health

  3. Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm

    Part 1: Individual Health

  4. Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups

  5. Allen Buie

  6. Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home

  7. Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack

  8. Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

  9. Brenna Costello

  10. Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health

  11. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs

  12. Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres

  13. Jamie Mitchell

    Part 2: Community Health

  14. Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses

  15. Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs

  16. Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia

  17. Klavs Hyttel

  18. A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital

  19. Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson

  20. Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning

  21. Harm Hollander

  22. The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health

  23. Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve

  24. Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point

  25. Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman

  26. Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic

  27. Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg

  28. From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design

  29. Megan Stone

    Part 3: Global Health

  30. Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery

  31. Bart van der Salm

  32. Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center

  33. Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel

  34. Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment

  35. Robin Guenther

  36. A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations

  37. Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway

  38. Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System

  39. Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters

  40. Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design

  41. Mara Baum

  42. The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions

  43. Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield

  44. Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health

David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Index

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/10/2019
      ISBN13: 9780367075224, 978-0367075224
      ISBN10: 0367075229

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Architecture 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

      Trade Review

      “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 Contents

      Foreword

      Acknowledgments

      Key Terms

      2. Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health

      3. Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm

        Part 1: Individual Health

      4. Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups

      5. Allen Buie

      6. Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home

      7. Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack

      8. Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

      9. Brenna Costello

      10. Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health

      11. Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs

      12. Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres

      13. Jamie Mitchell

        Part 2: Community Health

      14. Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses

      15. Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs

      16. Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia

      17. Klavs Hyttel

      18. A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital

      19. Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson

      20. Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning

      21. Harm Hollander

      22. The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health

      23. Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve

      24. Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point

      25. Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman

      26. Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic

      27. Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg

      28. From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design

      29. Megan Stone

        Part 3: Global Health

      30. Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery

      31. Bart van der Salm

      32. Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center

      33. Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel

      34. Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment

      35. Robin Guenther

      36. A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations

      37. Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway

      38. Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System

      39. Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters

      40. Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design

      41. Mara Baum

      42. The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions

      43. Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield

      44. Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health

      David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz

      About the Editors

      List of Contributors

      Index

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