Future Perfect: Trends Shaping Healthcare Architecture When most of us think about the future of medicine, architecture is not the first thing that comes to mind. We think of advances in technology, enabling better imaging techniques, robotic surgery, and advances in medical research, enabling genetic engineering of which miracles are now expected. We think, too, […]

Nirvana and Healthcare Architecture Can Nirvana be described in language? There seem to be significant problems in trying to undertake this. H. Guenther and C. Trungpa in their book “The Dawn of Tantra” describe these problems in the extract below: “Buddhism has always placed great emphasis on experience. The four basic axioms of Buddhism are […]

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying A spiritual classic from one of the foremost interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism to the West Sogyal Rinpoche Born in Kham in eastern Tibet, Sogyal Rinpoche was recognized as the incarnation of Tertén Sogyal Lerab Lingpa, a teacher to the thirteenth Dalai Lama. He received the traditional training of […]

Circulation: A Critical Issue — Conceptual Clarity & Ease of Wayfinding   ‘Circulation’ is defined by the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate dictionary as: “orderly movement through a circuit; esp: the movement of blood through the vessels of the body influenced by the pumping action of the heart.” So we have our medical analogy, though a hospital is […]

So Many Books, So Little Time   I have been a voracious reader since childhood, done the Enid Blyton’s and then the Alistair MacLean’’s too, until one day browsing in the school library | pulled out from the shelves Part 1 of “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkein. It was a book that […]

About Water: Its Usage, and Conservation in Healthcare Facilities By Husaini Sadikot – My Cousin and Guest Blogger Uses of water include agricultural (i.e. watering of farm or other plants or irrigation) which uses about 70% of all water usage, industrial 22%, household about 8%, recreational and environment activity uses less water than above. Of […]

Healthcare Architecture and the Green Tao (Path) “If you wish to sustain your body in good health, take care of the world. Your body is part of the world; so you cannot abuse the world, and still expect your body to remain well. By treating the world well, you can be at peace with it. […]

Modernity’s Effect on Healthcare Architecture in the 20th Century: Dignity and Disaster By Hussain Varawalla What is Modernity?   In our postmodern and deconstructivist world of today, there have been many answers offered to this question. The majority of them have been negative. It has been said that Modernity marked the death of God, as […]

Green Healthcare Facilities: An Overview of Initial Capital Costs and Operational Benefits This article will take an overview of the relationship between initial capital costs and the operational benefits that accrue from the additional costs of “going green”, the data being taken from healthcare facilities in the United States of America. In 2011, an American […]

THE SURGICAL SUITE                                                                                         Introduction Planning for the surgical suite, one of the […]