The Architecture of Health

Name: The Architecture of Health
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Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

By Michael P. Murphy Jr. and Jeffrey Mansfield and MASS Design Group

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The Architecture of Health explores the evolution of hospital design, revealing how architectural choices have shaped medical care and social conditions over centuries. It profiles visionary architects and polymaths like Florence Nightingale, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn, illustrating how hospitals reflect broader societal and political orders. Richly illustrated with rare renderings by MASS Design Group, the book links historical epidemics with contemporary innovations in healthcare infrastructure, emphasising architecture's vital role in fostering healing and social justice.
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Architecture and design enthusiasts interested in medical and social history will find this book engaging. It suits professionals exploring healthcare infrastructure and readers curious about how architecture influences society and wellbeing.

Buildings can shape our lives, improve our health, and transform society. Academic histories of architecture and medicine overlook the importance of hospital design. This book shows how hospitals embody the social hierarchies of their time. Hospitals influence individual behavior, and they have the potential to advance human rights. To study hospitals is to unlock the laws of architecture

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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 is a deciphering 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 specific medical dilemmas. Less-known designers like Filarete, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Albert Schweitzer, Max Fry and Jane Drew, John Dawe Tetlow, Gordon Friesen, Thomas Wheeler, and Eberhard Zeidler are studied here, while the medical spaces of more widely-known architects like 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 summarises 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, richly illustrated with images and never before published renderings and drawings from the MASS Design Group, charts historical epidemics alongside modern and contemporary architectural transformations in service of medicine, health, and habitation. It explores how infrastructure facilitates healing and architecture's greater role in constructing our societies.

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Praised for demonstrating the scale at which creative design sustains life, The Architecture of Health offers unique insights into emergency room evolution and hospital typologies over a millennium. Reviewers highlight its focus on dignity, justice, and innovative healthcare technologies, showcasing how design intersects with medicine to address enduring challenges. Described as clarifying the form-function debate in hospital design with powerful human consequences, the book is commended in publications like the New York Times, Architectural Record, and Metropolis.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781942303312

Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 November 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Illustration: 250 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 1060g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Jeffrey Mansfield MASS Design Group Michael P. Murphy Jr. Non-Fiction

About the Author

Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is the Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collective that leverages buildings, as well as the design and construction process, to become catalysts for economic growth, social change, and justice. Since MASS's beginnings, their portfolio of work has expanded to over a dozen countries and span the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development. MASS's work has been published in over 900 publications and awarded globally. Most recently, MASS has been recognized as the winners of the national Arts and Letters Award for 2017 and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Michael's 2016 TED talk has reached over a million views, and was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for Peace and Justice in 2017. Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer. She is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Lupton is founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers (May 2021), Health Design Thinking (2020), Design is Storytelling (2017), Graphic Design: The New Basics (2015), Thinking with Type (2014), and Graphic Design Thinking (2011). Daniel A. Barber is associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning (Princeton University Press, 2020) and A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2016).