Julie Willis, Philip Goad, Cameron Logan

Architecture and the Modern Hospital (eBook, PDF)

Nosokomeion to Hygeia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It explores the evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways architects re-imagined the modern hospital. It examines how the expansion of medical institutions was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429785160
• Artikelnr.: 54536290

Autorenporträt

Julie Willis is Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a distinguished architectural scholar, with expertise in Australian architectural history of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her current research examines the transmission and translation of architectural knowledge through professional networks in architecture. Major works include the Encyclopedia of Australian Architecture (2012, with Philip Goad) and, with Kate Darian-Smith, the recently published edited collection Designing Schools: Space, Place and Pedagogy (Routledge, 2017).

Philip Goad is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Chair of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is an architect and architectural historian, and is renowned for his extensive scholarship on modern Australian architecture. His current research examines the role and influence of the Bauhaus on Australian architecture. His most recent book, with Geoffrey London and Conrad Hamann, is An Unfinished Experiment in Living: Australian Houses 1950-65 (2017).

Cameron Logan is Senior Lecturer and Director of Heritage Conservation at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, Australia. His work is concerned with civic culture, public architecture and the political, architectural and urban implications of heritage conservation practice. He is the author of Historic Capital: Preservation, Race and Real Estate in Washington, DC (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. From Nosokomeion to Hygeia:
Foundations of an Architecture for Health 2. Everyone's Own "Healing
Machine": The Hospital Bed 3. Knowledge, Care and Control: Nurses' Stations
and Nurses' Homes 4. Incision and Anaesthesia: The Operating Theatre 5.
Treating Outside, Looking Inside: Diagnosis and Therapy 6. Full Steam
Ahead! Servicing the Modern Hospital 7. Health, Hygiene and Progress:
Designing the Hospital of Tomorrow 8. Health City, Healing Landscapes and
the Hospital Campus 9. The Modern Hospital: The Rise, Fall and Rise Again
of Architecture