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Doctors' Practices
Series: Architecture in Focus
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This book is ideal for architects, healthcare professionals, and anyone interested in the design of medical spaces that prioritise both functionality and wellbeing.
Compiles designs worldwide that break through the stereotype of doctors practices as cold and often stressful environments. This title includes projects that intend at balancing medical technology and functionality with the need to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for the patients, visitors and staff.
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This book compiles contemporary designs worldwide that break through the stereotype of doctors' practices as cold and often stressful environments. All projects aim at balancing medical technology and functionality with the need to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for the patients, visitors and staff. Apart from general practitioners' offices, those of dentists and a wide variety of specialists are also presented.
The solutions range from practice design in an existing building to entirely new buildings for one or more offices. Doctors' Practices demonstrates today's architectural responses to the complex demands of healthcare—a very fast-developing field.
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Doctors' Practices
This book compiles contemporary designs worldwide that break through the stereotype of doctors' practices as cold and often stressful environments. All projects aim at balancing medical technology and functionality with the need to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for the patients, visitors and staff. Apart from general practitioners' offices, those of dentists and a wide variety of specialists are...Hardback$11700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9783037680773
Publisher: Braun Publishing AG
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 05 September 2011
Country: Switzerland
Imprint: Braun Publishing AG
Illustration: Illustrated in colour throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 225.0mm
Height: 295.0mm
Weight: 1830g
Pages: 272
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