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Design for Health
Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture
Series: Architectural Design
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This book is ideal for architects, designers, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in the intersection of sustainable architecture and health-focused environments.
Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as:
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Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters
This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as:
- Integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment;
- Specifying local materials and passive technologies;
- Reinvigorating aging postwar facilities.
Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber.
Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Møller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Montgomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad.
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"Serves as a timely, topical and thought-provoking reminder of the potential of our industry to significantly and tangibly improve the quality of people's lives through better buildings." – The NBS, July 2017
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ISBN: 9781119162131
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 24 March 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Contributors:
- Guest editor Terri Peters
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 211.0mm
Height: 285.0mm
Weight: 590g
Pages: 136
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About the Author
Terri Peters is a Canadian architect, writer and researcher now based in Toronto, who previously lived and worked in Denmark and the UK for 12 years. She has a broad network of multi-disciplinary collaborators, relating to sustainability research, building transformation, health and wellbeing, as well as the employment of new technologies. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, investigating the relationship between sustainable architecture and health, particularly analysing how architectural design can improve patient wellbeing in residential care environments. She has organised conferences, served on discussion panels and award juries, and made presentations to various international construction industry and research institutions. She is the editor of two recent publications: Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research, AD (Wiley, 2011) and Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design (Wiley 2013).
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