Design for Health
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Design for Health

Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture

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Design for Health

Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture

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About This Book

Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture Guest-Edited by Terri Peters This issue of AD seeks out innovative and varied sustainable architectural responses to designing for health, such as:

  • integrating sensory gardens and landscapes into the care environment;
  • specifying local materials and passive technologies;
  • and reinvigorating aging postwar facilities.

Contributors include: Anne-Marie Adams, Sean Ahlquist, Giuseppe Boscherini, Robin Guenther, Charles Jencks, Richard Mazuch, Stephen Verderber,

Featured architects: 100% Interior, Arup, C.F. Møller, Lyons, MASS Design Group, Mongomery Sisam Architects, Penoyre & Prasad

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Publisher
Wiley
Year
2017
ISBN
9781119162148

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Copyright Page
  5. About the Guest–Editor
  6. Introduction: Interconnected Approaches to Sustainable Architecture
  7. Decoding Modern Hospitals: An Architectural History
  8. Superarchitecture: Building for Better Health
  9. Lean, Green and Healthy: Landscape and Health
  10. Salutogenic and Biophilic Design as Therapeutic Approaches to Sustainable Architecture
  11. Environmentally Smart Design: Designing for Social Wellbeing Across the City and in the Workplace
  12. Humanist Principles, Sustainable Design and Salutogenics: A New Form of Healthcare Architecture
  13. Maggie’s Architecture: The Deep Affinities Between Architecture and Health
  14. Healthy Patient Rooms in Hospitals: Emotional Wellbeing Naturally
  15. Can Architecture Heal?: Buildings as Instruments of Health
  16. Multisensory Architecture: The Dynamic Interplay of Environment, Movement and Social Function
  17. Architects as First Responders: Portable Healthcare Architecture in a Climate-Altered World
  18. A Sense of Coherence: Supporting the Healing Process
  19. Cultivating the ‘In-Between’: Humanising the Modern Healthcare Experience
  20. Regenerative Agents: Patient-Focused Architectures
  21. Counterpoint Transforming Hospitals: Building Restorative Healthcare
  22. Contributors
  23. What is Architectural Design?
  24. Forthcoming Titles
  25. Back Cover
  26. EULA