Understanding the Maggie's Centres: An Architecture of Care

This book provides designers and students with an in-depth analysis of the architecture of the world-renowned Maggie's Centres, an international network of buildings offering support to people affected by cancer. Conceived by Maggie Keswick Jencks during her experience of terminal cancer, together with her husband Charles Jencks, landscape designer and architectural critic, the centres represent a radical rethinking of care environments.

Focusing on the relationship between architectural fo...