The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0711225974 ISBN 13: 9780711225978

Casa editrice: Frances Lincoln, 2010

Riassunto

Since the mid-1990s, an exciting building project has been underway: new cancer care centers that offer a new approach to architecture and health. Named after Maggie Keswick and cofounded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, these centers aim to be at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer. The Architecture of Hope showcases these structures where, under one roof, patients can access help with information, benefits, psychological support, and stress-reducing strategies. The book offers a history of the centers, as well as profiles of individual centers throughout the U.K. The Architecture of Hope is a testament to these places of hope and healing, available to anybody, whether or not they are afflicted with this terrible disease.

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Recensione:

What you all have created, in terms of architecture, is a community statement to patients and carers that Your Life Matters.Walking from the hospital into Maggie's is a concretization of hope - just as the daffodil reminds us of spring. --Senior Vice President, The Wellness Community in Santa Monica

This is an inspirational book that anyone interested in the most sensitive contemporary design and in the future of healthcare should read. --Country Life

L'autore:

Edwin Heathcote is the architecture correspondent for the Financial Times. He is the author of Contemporary Church Architecture, London Caffs and Furniture + Architecture of which Blueprint wrote Occasionally you come across a book that does everything it claims and then some. This is one. Charles Jencks is the author of several best-selling books on architecture. He divides his time between lecturing, writing and designing in the USA, in the UK and in Europe.

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• Editore: Frances Lincoln
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0711225974
• ISBN 13: 9780711225978
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Redattore: Jencks Charles