Health Buildings and Hospitals

An updated version of a work that has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art in creating healing environments.

Features the rise of the modern hospice movement that began in 1967. This book describes the lessons the hospice movement has for fresh ideas about buildings for healthcare across the world. It is suitable for architects and interior designers, estate and facility managers involved in hospice design, healthcare professionals.

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities.

Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function, public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people's satisfaction and experience of health care.

Written by experts with experience in policy-making, designing, building, and managing complex healthcare environments, it shows professionals in architecture, engineering, healthcare and facilities management how to enhance the long-term usefulness of their campuses and how to strengthen their physical assets with the capacity to accommodate a quickly evolving healthcare sector.

Healthcare decision makers and their architects and interior designers will be inspired by innovative the featured new healing environments that embody design concepts they can study and adapt for their own use.

Shift Clinic design to keep pace with the evolving healthcare industry Modern Clinic Design: Strategies for an Era of Change is a comprehensive guide to optimizing patient experience through the design of the built environment.

This title presents the fundamental principals behind the conception and design of built space and their effect on coping with illness. One of the key questions to be answered is how architecture can contribute to healing.