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
Guest editor:
Terri Peters (Freelance writer Copenhagen and London)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 285mm,
Width: 211mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781119162131
ISBN 10: 1119162130
Series: Architectural Design
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 24 March 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
About the Guest-Editor 05 Terri Peters Introduction Interconnected Approachesto Sustainable Architecture 06 Terri Peters Decoding Modern Hospitals An Architectural History 16 Annmarie Adams Superarchitecture Building for Better Health 24 Terri Peters Lean, Green and Healthy Landscape and Health 32 Julian Weyer Salutogenic and Biophilic Design as Therapeutic Approaches to Sustainable Architecture 42 Richard Mazuch Environmentally Smart Design Designing for Social Wellbeing Across the City and in the Workplace 48 Alisdair McGregor, Ann Marie Aguilar and Victoria Lockhart Humanist Principles, Sustainable Design and Salutogenics A New Form of Healthcare Architecture 56 Corbett Lyon Maggie’s Architecture The Deep Affinities Between Architecture and Health 66 Charles Jencks Healthy Patient Rooms in Hospitals Emotional Wellbeing Naturally 76 Sylvia Leydecker Can Architecture Heal? Buildings as Instruments of Health 82 Michael Murphy and Jeffrey Mansfield Multisensory Architecture The Dynamic Interplay of Environment, Movement and Social Function 90 Sean Ahlquist, Leah Ketcheson and Costanza Colombi Architects as First Responders Portable Healthcare Architecture in a Climate-Altered World 100 Stephen Verderber A Sense of Coherence Supporting the Healing Process 108 Giuseppe Boscherini Cultivating the ‘In-Between’ Humanising the Modern Healthcare Experience 114 Terry Montgomery Regenerative Agents Patient-Focused Architectures 112 Sunand Prasad Counterpoint Transforming Hospitals Building Restorative Healthcare 128 Robin Guenther Contributors 134
Terri Peters is a Canadian architect, writer and researcher now based in Toronto, who previously lived and worked in Denmark and the UK for 12 years. She has a broad network of multi-disciplinary collaborators, relating to sustainability research, building transformation, health and wellbeing, as well as the employment of new technologies. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, investigating the relationship between sustainable architecture and health, particularly analysing how architectural design can improve patient wellbeing in residential care environments. She has organised conferences, served on discussion panels and award juries, and made presentations to various international construction industry and research institutions. She is the editor of two recent publications: Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research, AD (Wiley, 2011) and Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design (Wiley 2013).
Reviews for Design for Health: Sustainable Approaches to Therapeutic Architecture
""Serves as a timely, topical and thought-provoking reminder of the potential of our industry to significantly and tangibly improve the quality of people's lives through better buildings."" (The NBS, July 2017)
