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Below are a number of books in the Architecture Library on the design of healthcare spaces. They can provide valuable insights into design best-practices and ways to reduce spread of infection and disease through material selection, circulation, use of natural light and ventilation, and incorporation of green spaces.
Rethink Design Guide: Architecture for a Post-Pandemic World by Call Number: NA2543.S6 R48 2021ISBN: 9781859469804Publication Date: 2021This innovative design guide draws together expert guidance on designing in the immediate aftermath of the pandemic for key architectural sectors: housing, workplace, civic and cultural, hospitality, education, infrastructure and civic placemaking. It provides design inspiration to architects on how they can respond to the challenges and opportunities of a post-pandemic environment and how architects ensure they are at the forefront of the best design in this new world.
Healthcare Architecture As Infrastructure by Call Number: RA967 .H395 2019Architects and healthcare clients are increasingly coming to recognize that, once built, healthcare facilities are almost immediately subject to physical alterations which both respond to and affect healthcare practices. This calls into question the traditional ways in which these facilities are designed. If functions and practices are subject to alteration, the standard approach of defining required functions and practices before acquiring facilities is obsolete. We need other starting points, working methods, and ways of collaborating. Healthcare Architecture as Infrastructure presents these new approaches
Innovations in Hospital Architecture by Call Number: RA967 .V474 2010This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today's architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly considers what needs to be done in order to meet that challenge. The contemporary hospital is viewed in the context of global climate change, the planet's diminishing natural resources and the spiralling cost of operating healthcare facilities. Stephen Verderber considers the future of the hospital, and supplies a compendium of 100 planning and design considerations for the building type. The book includes twenty-eight case studies of built and unbuilt hospitals from around the world.
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture by Call Number: RA967 .G827 2013Written by a leading healthcare architect named one of Fast Company's 100 most creative people in business and sustainability expert recognized by Time magazine as a GreenInnovator, Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, SecondEdition is fully updated to incorporate the latest sustainable design approaches and information as applied to hospitals and other healthcare facilities
Landscape and Urban Design for Health and Well-Being by Call Number: SB454.3.P45 S68 2015In this book Gayle Souter-Brown explores the social, economic and environmental benefits of developing greenspace for health and well-being. She examines the evidence behind the positive effects of designed landscapes, and explains effective methods and approaches which can be put into practice by those seeking to reduce costs and add value through outdoor spaces. Using principles from sensory, therapeutic and healing gardens, Souter-Brown focuses on landscape's ability to affect health, education and economic outcomes.
