"...Creating an
environment where their stress gives away to security is primary; technical
support is a means to restore health, not the source of a humane environment.
From this perspective, the architect's task is twofold: to synthesize program,
structure, and services into a smoothly functioning hospital, and to mold an
environment that appears to be simpler than it actually is. Sontag writes that
we should de-amplify illness. In their own way, hospital architects do the same:
they make the whole look like less than the sum of its parts. ... Philip Monteleoni, an associate partner at
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, describes the parallel circulation routes of a
large hospital as a key to understanding its nature. They segregate the diverse
users of the building -- staff, visitors, and patients -- until the "medical
moment" of their appointed convergence. ... For pragmatic and psychological reasons, patients ought not see all
that the hospital comprises. New York's Bellevue Hospital, with a staff of 5000,
is designed so that a patient never realizes how large the institution is, lest
he or she feel like a mere statistic. Robert Douglas, formerly a consultant for
healthcare architecture, says that as the size of the hospital increases, so
should the simplicity of its circulation."
Article from Architecture History - a visit to an historical 'insane asylum'
"Otto Wagner and the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital: Architecture as Misunderstanding " an interesting article in Art Bulletin
Design issues in healthcare - adolescent patients article in Environment and Behaviour
The aesthetics of general hospitals (this looked pretty good) - article in the International Journal of Nursing Studies
"Environmental sources of satisfaction among hospital patients" - an article in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
"Relationship between Color and Emotion: A Study of College Students" an article in College Student Journal
"Enhancing the therapeutic potential of hospital environments by increasing the personal control and emotional comfort of hospitalized patients" - article in Journal of Applied Nursing Studies
General article on hospital design - Environmental Design and Construction
Interviews of experts within various aesthetic fields describing their evaluations of aesthetics in hospitals. Article in Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health. - article in Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
The aesthetics of general hospitals (this looked pretty good) - article in the International Journal of Nursing Studies
"Environmental sources of satisfaction among hospital patients" - an article in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
"Relationship between Color and Emotion: A Study of College Students" an article in College Student Journal
"Enhancing the therapeutic potential of hospital environments by increasing the personal control and emotional comfort of hospitalized patients" - article in Journal of Applied Nursing Studies
General article on hospital design - Environmental Design and Construction
Interviews of experts within various aesthetic fields describing their evaluations of aesthetics in hospitals. Article in Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Healing Spaces: Elements of Environmental Design That Make an Impact on Health. - article in Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine
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