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Professor George J Mann

Professor George J Mann - AIA, is the Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Professor of Health Facilities Design at Texas A&M University, USA. He has published numerous articles, and research reports giving presentations of his findings on both national and international levels.

George J. Mann, AIA is the Skaggs-Sprague Endowed Professor of Health Facilities Design at Texas A&M University. He has a national and international reputation as a leader in health facilities design. He has had over 46 years of pioneering experience in the field of architecture for health through his architectural research, teaching, consulting, and practice. Professor Mann has also published numerous articles, and research reports, giving presentations of his findings on both a natural and international level. He has organized numerous national and international conferences on his practice, consulting, teaching, and research. Professor Mann has served as a faculty member at Kansas State University, Columbia University, The University of Tokyo, Nagoya City University, The Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Technion (Israel Institute of Architecture), and Texas A&M University. He has guided the architectural education of over 4000 students, many of whom now lead the field architecture for health all across the globe. Professor Mann has attracted over $3.5 million in sponsored grants and research contracts to Texas A&M University.

After graduating from the Columbia University School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture, followed by a Master of Science in Architecture for Health, (awarded jointly by the Columbia University School of Architecture and School of Public Health), he was awarded a William Kinne traveling Fellowship to study health facilities in Europe and the Middle East. He apprenticed with I.M. Pei and Associates, and Skidmore Owings and Merrill Architects in New York City. In 1963, he founded George J. Mann and Associates, Planners, and Architects. In 1971, he founded RPD-Resource Planning and Development. In 1980, he reorganized these two entities into the RPD Group. In 1999, together with Dr. Yasushi Nagasawa of the University of Tokyo, he founded GUPHA - Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture. In 2000, he was elected the first president of GUPHA. Professor Mann was one of the Founders of Texas A&M University’s HIAC-Health Industry Advisory Council in 2002.

Professor Mann has been involved in over 500 facility projects world-wide. Selected projects he has been involved with are: the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas; Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago; Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas; Children’s Medical Center in Dallas; St. Joseph Health Center in Bryan, Texas; Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas; Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, Israel; Ha’emek Medical Center in Afula, Israel; Flying Eye Hospital in a DC-10; Ship; A Rehabilitation Center for Landmine Victims in Leon, Nicaragua; CMMTCenter for Medical Mission Training in Las Cruces, Guatemala; A Children’s Hospital for the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta; A Clinic in El Salvador; MUHC, (McGill University Health Centre,) Montreal; Houston Hospice; TIRR- The Institute of the Asian Mercy Hospital Research and Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas; AMHAmerican Mission Hospital, Bahrain; Family Practice Center, Health Science Center, Bryan, Texas; Student Health Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas; and the Kruse Memorial Lutheran Village, Brenham, Texas; ERV/A-Emergency Response Vehicle/ Ambulance; HRCA-Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, MA; Design of Safer School Bus; S.O.S., Save Our Streets Ministries, Bryan, TX; Scotty’s House, Bryan, TX; Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel; Project Mandy, Bryan, TX; Mansfield Medical Center, Mansfield, TX; Hatfield Hospital, Hertfordshire, UK. A Women’s Shelter in Hempstead, TX: Toward 2056, “A Vision of the New Texas A&M University System Health Science Center,” in College Station, TX. He has also worked with WHO (World Health Organization) and the UNDP (United Nations Development Program). Since 1974 he has been a member of the UIA/PHG (International Union of Architects/Public Health Group) and is a member of its executive committee. Since 1970 has been a member of AAH (American Academy of Architecture for Health) and in recent years, a member of its leadership Board. He has also mentored 21 AIA/AHA Fellows.

Professor Mann has lectured on health facilities design to the IHF (International Hospital Federation), at Mcgill University in Montreal: Georgia Tech; Clemson University; City University of New York; Washington University in St. Louis; Tel Aviv University and the Desert Architecture Unit in Sde Boqer, Israel; Hong Kong Hospital Authority; Nairobi, Kenya; Moscow, Russia; Warsaw, Poland, University of Florence, Italy, and the Architectural Institute of Korea in Seoul; Thessaloniki University, Ottawa, Canada; Manila, Phillipines; Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; The Board of Directors of the Kaiser Permanente Health Plan in Oxnard, California; the Technological Institute in Monterrey, Mexico; Daniel Center in Genoa, Italy; Nashville; Chicago; Orlando; Sun Valley; Gatlinburg, Boston and the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Hames Sharley, Architects, Perth, Australia; Pretoria, South Africa.

Professor George J. Mann received the high honor of being invited to deliver the Texas A&M University Lecture in 1989. The title of that lecture was, “People, Resources, and Architecture: 21st Century Challenges.” He was also the recipient of the former President George H. W. Bush Excellence in Service Award in 2003.

Education: Opening the Debate - 30 November 2006
Keynote Speakers: Professor George J Mann, Professor Bas Molenaar and Professor Ake Wiklund
Contribution: Leo Care
Chairman: Robin Nicholson
Welcoming from London Metropolitan University: Professor Graeme Evans