PREFACE A facility program makes explicit the goals, facts, concepts, and facility needs of a building in a way that is useful for making design decisions. Facility programming provides essential information to the client and designer about the building requirements necessary to support required functions. As such, it is an important step in the facility […]

Can Hospitals be Architecture? The Image of a Hospital      The question ‘can hospitals be architecture?’ has often been posed. One approach to the answer could be to ask how ‘architecture’ is defined. Merriam-Webster offers:the art or science of building; specif : the art or practice of designing and building structures and esp. habitable […]