Health care architecture in the Netherlands / Noor Mens, Cor Wagenaar.
By: Mens, Noor
.
Contributor(s): Wagenaar, Cor.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: Rotterdam : NAI Publishers, 2010Description: 352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 9789056627348; 9056627341.Subject(s): Hospital buildings -- Design and construction -- Netherlands | Health facilities -- Netherlands -- Design and construction | Older people -- Housing -- Netherlands | People with mental disabilities -- Housing -- Netherlands | Public architecture -- NetherlandsDDC classification: 725.5 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 725.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00158402 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Over the years, hospitals, psychiatric institutions and hospice facilities for the elderly have been subject to radical change. To a great extent, these buildings--their amenities and accommodations--have been shaped by developments in medicine and government, shifts in societal and patient perceptions, as well as evolution in architectural ideologies and theories. Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands describes the historical evolution of industry-specific design in the healthcare arena, providing a detailed chronological overview from the emergence of healthcare architecture as its own genre within architectural practice to the most recent innovative complexes. It also features approximately 50 buildings from the last 150 years, with illustrations and detailed descriptions, plus a series of texts that addresses aspects of national and international architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relation to the health care sector.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-346) and index.
1750-1914 The origin of health care buildings -- 1914-1940 Light, air and space -- 1940-1960 The reconstruction -- 1960-1970 Building boom -- 1970-1980 The critical seventies -- 1980-1990 Flexibility and urbanity -- 1992- 2002 Changes in the health care landscape -- 2002-2010 Beyond health care architecture: the way to the future.
Summary: Healthcare Architecture in the Netherlands describes the development of buildings for health care: hospitals and psychiatric institutions as well as housing and care facilities for the elderly. Eight chapters provide a chronological overview of the architecture of buildings for health care, from its emergence as a specific typology to the most recent care complexes. In addition, some 50 buildings from the last century and a half are described and illustrated in detail. A series of thematic texts addresses specific aspects of national and international architecture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in relation to buildings for the healthcare sector.
UCC fund.