Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0300078390 ISBN 13: 9780300078398

Casa editrice: Yale University Press, 2000

In the 1960s and 1970s large, high-technology, inpatient oriented hospitals reflected the central role of such facilities in an expanding healthcare system. But hospital architecture and the healthcare system have vastly changed since then, in profound and unpredicted ways. This book explores for the first time how and why acute care hospitals and the often related psychiatric facilities, retirement communities, and community clinics have been transformed during the final decades of the twentieth century.

The authors also consider utopian visions of unbuilt work and look ahead to the possible healthcare landscape of the future: health villages,” home-based care for the aging and aged population, and cyberclinics and virtual hospitals.

About the Author:

Stephen Verderber is professor of architecture and health systems management at Tulane University, a registered architect, and co-principal of R-2ARCH, Los Angeles and New Orleans. David J. Fine is Regents Professor and chair of the department of health systems management at Tulane University and emeritus vice chancellor of the Tulane University Medical Center.

Review:

"a superb introduction to the major hospital architects of the late twentieth century" -- Annmarie Adams, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians