Health Buildings and Hospitals

For the first time, this book illustrates the most important Maggie's Centres in UK with precise itineraries, showing the importance of their role and their architecture

The book documents the design of patient rooms as the core element of a hospital. It explains the different design components such as material, color, light, surface texture, etc., while addressing the necessities of hygiene, as well as those of workflow, and economic viability. The book is rounded off by ten international project examples.

As life expectancy is extended, medical procedures continually advance and competition between health care providers intensifies, hospital design becomes increasingly important. Drawing on over 60 examples from across the world, this title illustrates the contemporary approach to hospital architecture.

This book summarizes design principles and design research for individuals who are intending to design new mental and behavioural health facilities and those wishing to evaluate the quality of their existing facilities.

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type.

Case studies contributed by: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Architects, London; Avanti Architects, London; Henley Halebrown Rorrision Architects, London; Holder Mathias Architects, London; Holmes Miller Architects, Glasgow; Kennedy FitzGerald Architects, Belfast; MBLA Architects and Urbanists, Manchester; Penoyre and Prasad Architects, London.

Design for Pediatric and Neonatal Critical Care provides an overview of the design and research issues associated with the development of environments for pediatric and neonatal intensive care.

The book presents an expansive and fully illustrated set of international case studies, that express state-of -the -art advancements in architecture for behavioural healthcare.