1st Edition
Architecture and Health Guiding Principles for Practice
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 domains—individual, community, and global—in 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 by normative building practices and transforms the dialogue into one of creativity and innovation. With over 200 color images, this book is an essential read for architects, designers, and students to explore and analyze designed environments that promote health and well-being.
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Key Terms
- Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health
- Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups
- Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home
- Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities
- Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health
- Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres
- Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses
- Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia
- A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital
- Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning
- The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health
- Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point
- Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic
- From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design
- Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery
- Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center
- Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment
- A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations
- Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System
- Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design
- The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions
- Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health
Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm
Part 1: Individual Health
Allen Buie
Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack
Brenna Costello
Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs
Jamie Mitchell
Part 2: Community Health
Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs
Klavs Hyttel
Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson
Harm Hollander
Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve
Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman
Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg
Megan Stone
Part 3: Global Health
Bart van der Salm
Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel
Robin Guenther
Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway
Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters
Mara Baum
Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield
David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Index
Biography
Dina Battisto, BArch, MArch, MS, PhD, is an associate professor of architecture at Clemson University, where she teaches in the graduate Architecture + Health program. Her research and scholarship activities focus on studying relationships between health, healthcare, and the built environment.
Jacob J. Wilhelm works in architectural practice and publication, exploring hospitality, housing, and vernacular solutions for growing mountain and remote regions.
“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
