HISTORY OF HOSPITAL PLANNING The hospital as an institution offering care to those who need it is of great antiquity. The modern word is derived from the Latin hospes (“host”), which is also the root for the words ‘hotel’, ‘hospice’, and ‘hospitality’. The earliest examples approximating the institutions we call hospitals, however, were the Egyptian […]
The Modern Hospital: Western Trends in Healthcare Facility Design from the 1980’s Onwards Reinventing the Hospital […]
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot… It’s the refrain from a song titled “Big Yellow Taxi recently popularized by Countin’ Crows. They go on to sing: ‘Took all the trees, put them in a tree museum Charged all the people a dollar and a half to see them… Now don’t it […]
Flexible Design Principles in Healthcare Facility Planning vis-a-vis Adaptive Alternative Usage • Healthcare facilities as designed and built in India today would be resistant to change of use • However, “flexibility” as a design objective in contemporary healthcare facility design worldwide is of paramount importance • This flexibility refers only to flexibility of change of […]
The Architecture of Imaging: The Design of the Radiology & Imaging Sciences Department Introduction to Design Considerations Medicine is a science, but the practice of medicine is an art. This is especially true in the branch of medicine called medical imaging. The art of applying medical imaging requires high-technology equipment, tremendous care and patience, and […]
Commercialization of Medicine-An email from my cousin Dear Hoosu, Thank you for your emails about your work and the commercialization of medicine, the book ‘A First Rate Madness’ and your picture with friend Jayesh. I hope everyone is as well as possible. It seems that in India […]
The Business Case for Green Healthcare Facility Design “If you wish to sustain your body in good health, […]
Florence Nightingale: What Lessons Would She Teach us Today? Florence Nightingale was born into a two-class society characterized by the pauper and the aristocrat. The latter believed it was his God-given right to rule and be served by all the others. The Nightingale family, however, was different. It saw itself as having a philanthropic duty […]
Vertically Integrated Healthcare Facility Design Consulting Services: In What Ways is the Architecture Impacted? On the occasion of the EPIC-2003, a national seminar on Excellence through Planning and Integration of Care, being held by the Department of Hospital Administration, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra it seems appropriate to ask a question that any […]
Technology: The Future Role of Architects in Healthcare Delivery Systems Design Architecture, as a service to human societies, could be defined as the provision of fit environments for human activities. The word “fit” may be defined in the most generous terms imaginable, but it still does not necessarily imply the erection of buildings. Environments may […]
