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Viewpoint: Healthcare Facility Education
Ray Moss – Healthcare Facility Education Opening The Debate Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend the AfH event on 30th November 2006 at the new Libeskind Lecture Space at the London Metropolitan University, and indeed was doubly distressed for as I am keenly interested in the topic of architectural education in general, and post-graduate specialist training... »
Viewpoint: Medical Buildings and Schools of Architecture
M J Long – Medical Buildings and Schools of Architecture This is a brief note responding to what I understand to be a suggestion that architecture schools should “teach” medical buildings, and that they are at present ignoring them. I assume that to teach a building type, it would be necessary... »
Viewpoint: Sympathy for the Devil
Opening the Debate on adding healthcare design into architectural education Architects for Health seminar London Metropolitan University, 30.11.2006 AfH Preface With rare exception, healthcare facility planning and design is not taught in schools of architecture in the UK. This absence on the curricula has a direct effect on the perception that students, staff and the profession have of... »
Viewpoint: Rise Toward Heaven
Phil Gusack reviews the London Arts Health Forum seminar on Integration of Art in Healthcare Facilities, in association with Architects for Health, London 16 November 2006 200,000 years after his ancestors stood up and wandered out of the rainforest and onto the savannah, man discovered the caves at Lascaux, central France, and decided they were... »
Viewpoint: Shock Corridors
Shock Corridors: Bipolar mental healthcare planning and passive-aggressive design in the NHS A review of the Architects for Health seminar ‘Context, Challenge and Creativity : Designing for Acute Mental Healthcare’ on 21 September 2006 at the King’s Fund, London. Context Current developments in British mental healthcare still show traces of their medieval origins. Scrolling through the Mental Health Timeline... »
Viewpoint: Value of Landscaping on Health
Yuli Toh: Value of Landscaping on Health; Facts, Therapy, and Inspiration from UK and Japan Yuli Toh’s review of Value of Landscaping on Health; Facts, Therapy, and Inspiration from UK and Japan, an Event presented by Architects for Health in association with The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Architects for Health’s June Event titled The Value of Landscaping... »
Viewpoint: Wilmington PFI Conference 2006
Viewpoint: Phil Gusack on Wilmington’s PFI Conference Conference held on 28 June 2006 Nobody interested in design should pass up a chance to go to an event at Denys Lasdun’s marvelous Royal College of Physicians in Regents Park. Unlike many newer landmarks RCP looks better during the day than at night. Those of us at... »
Viewpoint: Phil Gusack on Roger Ulrich’s Personal Observations About Health Care Buildings in the UK
Viewpoint: Phil Gusack on Prof Roger Ulrich: Personal Observations About Health Care Buildings in the UK Presented by Architects for Health at Building Design Partnership, 16 Brewhouse Yard, Clerkenwell, London on 16 March 2006. What was you thinkin’? Patricia Hewitt took over as Secretary of State for Health from John Reid in May 2005. He moved to... »
Viewpoint: Corridors of Power
Corridors of Power The RIBA University College Hospital, London Euston Tower, London London, 17 June 2005 I take the lift to the top floor of the RIBA. The last time I’d made it past the bookshop off the main entrance was in 1997 when I handed my CV in to the Appointments Bureau but they took one look and said... »
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