1st Edition

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture

By Stephen Verderber Copyright 2016
366 Pages 235 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

366 Pages 235 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Aimed at architects and other professionals working across the disaster relief sector, it provides: An overview of the need for rapid response healthcare facilities; Global case studies which demonstrate... Read more

Illustration Credits  Acknowledgements  Part 1: Background  1. Introduction  2. Transportables for Health: A Brief Modern History  3. OFFSITE  Part 2: Design  4. Pop-Up Clinics 5. Planning and Design Considerations for Transportable Healthcare  Part 3: Case Studies  6. Case Studies 1-18  Appendices  1. Installation Sites 7-18 in New Orleans and Charleston  2. Four Interviews  Postscript  Notes  Index

Biography

Stephen Verderber is an award-winning scholar, researcher, and registered architect whose core specialty is architecture, design therapeutics, and health. He is a Professor at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, at the University of Toronto. He holds a doctorate in architecture from the University of Michigan and is co-founder of R-2ARCH. His many publications include Innovations in Hospice Architecture (2005), Innovations in Hospital Architecture (2010), and Sprawling Cities and Our Endangered Public Health (2012).