Architecture and Health: Guiding Principles for Practice

by Dina Battisto (Editor), Jacob J. Wilhelm (Editor)

Overview

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 organized 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 centers, clinics, healthy communities, healthcare campuses, wellness centers, 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 color images, this book is an essential read for architects, designers, and students to explore and analyze designed environments that promote health and well-being.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367075224
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/24/2019
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Key Terms

1. Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health

Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm

Part 1: Individual Health

2. Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups

Allen Buie

3. Elderly Autonomy through Architecture: Building a Fifth-Generation Residential Care Home

Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack

4. Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

Brenna Costello

5. Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs

6. Renewing the Human Spirit Through Design: Celebrating Maggie’s Centres

Jamie Mitchell

Part 2: Community Health

7. Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses

Shannon Kraus, Kate Renner, Dina Battisto, and Brett Jacobs

8. Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia

Klavs Hyttel

9. A Rebirth of the Consolidated Health Campus: The New Parkland Hospital

Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson

10. Defining a Project Method: Ensuring Project Success with Pre-Design Planning

Harm Hollander

11. The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health

Katharina Nieberler-Walker, Cheryl Desha, Omniya El Baghdadi, and Angela Reeve

12. Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point

Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman

13. Employee Wellness: The Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic

Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg

14. From Vice to Wellness: Defining a New Typology in Healthcare Retail Design

Megan Stone

Part 3: Global Health

15. Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery

Bart van der Salm

16. Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center

Steve Doub, Jim Hanford, Margaret Sprug, Chris Hellstern, and Katherine Misel

17. Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment

Robin Guenther

18. A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations

Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway

19. Integrating LEED with Biophilic Design Attributes: Towards an Inclusive Rating System

Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters

20. Connecting to Context: Place-Based Approaches to Biophilic Healthcare Design

Mara Baum

21. The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions

Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield

22. Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health

David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Index

Editorial Reviews

One of the traps experienced healthcare architects fall into is replicating the status quo. The primary strengths of this book are, firstly, the diversity of ideas and approaches from all over the world force the reader to explore new ideas and approaches. Secondly, the use of case studies takes ideas beyond the conceptual and demonstrates their execution, thereby, helping the reader to understand the applicability to his or her situation. I would highly recommend this book to those who want to step back and reflect on the greater issue of health and environment.”
Joyce Durham RN, AIA, EDAC, Director of Facilities Strategic Planning; New York-Presbyterian

"Architecture and Health reflects the broadened identity of both the architecture and health professions: architects now recognize that their responsibilities include the global built environment, while health professionals have begun to embrace global health and well-being as central to their work. The essays in this book also help us understand why that change has happened: both our built environment and our health system are unsustainable, inequitable, and unaffordable in their current form."
Thomas Fisher Professor, School of Architecture; Director, Minnesota Design Center, University of Minnesota

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