Architecture and Health

Name: Architecture and Health
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367075224
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Architecture and Health explores the vital connection between the built environment and health, presenting over 40 international award-winning projects. Organised into three key health domains—individual, community, and global—each case study offers innovative architectural solutions tailored to diverse contexts, including hospitals, rehabilitation centres, elderly housing, mental health facilities, and sustainable designs across continents.

This richly illustrated volume, featuring over 200 colour images, encourages architects, designers, and students to rethink normative building practices and embrace creativity and innovation in promoting health and well-being.
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This book is essential for architects, designers, students, and professionals interested in health-focused design and innovative architectural solutions that enhance well-being across varied contexts.

Architecture and Health brings together architects, academics, social scientists and more to explore and analyse innovative design strategies that advance health. This book proposes a set of principles that can be used to design environments to promote health and healing, regardless of program or scale.

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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 organised 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 centres, clinics, healthy communities, healthcare campuses, wellness centres, 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 colour images, this book is an essential read for architects, designers, and students to explore and analyse designed environments that promote health and well-being.

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Praised for its diverse global perspectives and extensive case studies, Architecture and Health challenges conventional healthcare design and inspires professionals to explore new ideas. Joyce Durham, Director of Facilities Strategic Planning at New York-Presbyterian, highlights the book's ability to move beyond concepts to practical applications, recommending it for those seeking to reflect on the broader relationship between health and environment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367075224

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 October 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 13 Tables, color; 77 Line drawings, color; 160 Halftones, color

Contributors:

Edited by Dina Battisto
Edited by Jacob J. Wilhelm

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1091g

Pages: 400

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

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.