Foreword

Acknowledgments

Key Terms

Introduction: Discovering an Architecture for Health

Dina Battisto and Jacob J. Wilhelm

Part 1: Individual Health

Healthcare Facilities for Children: Designing for Distinct Age Groups

Allen Buie

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

Dietger Wissounig and Birgit Prack

Advancing Rehabilitation: Design that Considers Physical and Cognitive Disabilities

Brenna Costello

Design Attributes for Improved Mental and Behavioral Health

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley and Naomi A. Sachs

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

Jamie Mitchell

Part 2: Community Health

Creating Healthy Communities Through Wellness Districts and Health Campuses

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

Superhospitals: The Next Generation of Public Hospitals in Scandinavia

Klavs Hyttel

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

Matthew Suarez and James J. Atkinson

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

Harm Hollander

The Efficacy of Healing Gardens: Integrating Landscape Architecture for Health

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

Lean Design: The Everett Clinic at Smokey Point

Barbara Anderson, Melanie Yaris, and Julia Leitman

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

Peter G. Smith and Stephen N. Berg

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

Megan Stone

Part 3: Global Health

Outdoor Oncology: A Nature-Inclusive Approach to Healthcare Delivery

Bart van der Salm

Living Buildings: The Bullitt Center

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

Regenerative Architecture: Redefining Progress in the Built Environment

Robin Guenther

A Blueprint for Using Renewable Energies in Remote Locations

Christopher W. Kiss and Keith Holloway

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

Stephen Verderber and Terri Peters

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

Mara Baum

The Anti-Prototype: Why Community Health Requires Local Solutions

Michael Murphy, Amie Shao, and Jeffrey Mansfield

Epilogue: The Future of an Architecture for Health

David Allison, Eva Henrich, and Edzard Schultz

About the Editors

List of Contributors

Index

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.

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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