The architecture of health : hospital design and the construction of dignity / Michael P. Murphy Jr. with Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design Group.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Murphy, Michael P., Jr, author.

Mansfield, Jeffrey, author.

MASS Design Group, author.

Contributor:

MASS Design Group, author.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hospital buildings--Design and construction.

Hospital buildings.

Architecture--Human factors.

Architecture.

Hospital Design and Construction.

Medical Subjects:

Hospital Design and Construction.

Physical Description:

255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 26 cm

Distribution:

London : Distributed worldwide by Thames & Hudson.

New York : Distributed in North America by Artbook / D.A.P.

Other Title:

Hospital design and the construction of dignity

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, [2021]

Summary:

"The Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of hospitals--about how they are born and evolve, about the forces that give them shape, and the shifts that conspire to render them inadequate. Reading architecture through the history of hospitals offers a tool for unlocking the elemental principles of architecture and the intractable laws of human and social conditions that architecture serves in each of our lives. This book encounters brilliant and visionary designers who were hospital architects but also systems designers, driven by the aim of social change. They faced the contradictions of health care in their time and found innovative ways to solve for specific medical dilemmas. Designers and professionals such as Filarete, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Albert Schweitzer, Gordon Friesen, E. Todd Wheeler and Eberhard Zeidler are studied here, while the medical spaces of more widely known architects such as Isambard Brunel, Aalvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn and Paul Rudolph also help inform this history. All these characters were polymaths and provocateurs, but none quite summarizes this history more succinctly than Florence Nightingale, who, in laying out her guidelines for ward design in 1859, shows how the design of a medical facility can influence an entire political and social order. The Architecture of Health charts historical epidemics alongside modern and contemporary architectural transformations in service of medicine, health and habitation, exploring how infrastructure facilitates healing and architecture's greater role in constructing our societies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : Consider the hospital

Introduction : The rise and fall of Prentice Women's Hospital

Typologies : A taxonomy of type

Chapter 1. Charity and control : the birth of the hospital

Chapter 2. Sanitation and experimentation

Chapter 3. Imperial forms and the medical mission

Chapter 4. Modernism and the factory

Chapter 5. The medical machine

Chapter 6. The mega-hospital

Chapter 7. The mat and the labyrinth

Chapter 8. Hospital city : the pathology of form

Coda : The COVID pandemic

Epilogue : The right to breathe.

Notes:

Published to accompany the exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, December 10, 2021-February 20, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

ISBN:

9781942303312

1942303319

OCLC:

1276795145