INTRODUCTION
Healthcare facilities are designed to enhance a hospital staff’s ability to provide high-quality care and efficiency. Architecture for healthcare facilities describes a physical setting that supports patients and families through the stresses that develop as a result of illness, hospitalization, medical visits, the healing process or bereavement. The concept implies that the physical healthcare environment can make a difference in how quickly patients recover or adapt to specific acute and chronic conditions.
LIST OF BEST HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE BOOKS
1. Hospitals – Facilities Planning & Management
By G D Kunders
Publication Date: 1st July 2017
Price: Rs. 1053
This book is a complete resource for those who are keen to understand the basics as well as the complexities of managing a hospital well. It has lots of ideas for the architect, who conceives of a viable plan for the hospital. It addresses the various issues which must be kept in mind by consultants, planners and administrators who subsequently run the hospital.
- Modern Trends In Planning And Designing Of Hospitals
By Gupta Shakti
Publication Year: 2007
Price: Rs. 4208
Medical Science and related health facility planning is an emerging sector of health infrastructure development. Medical technology, health transition, consumers’ expectations epidemiological and demographic changes, all impact upon the provisions of health care. There have been metamorphic changes in the recent past in the sphere of health care delivery. The planning, design and final architectural expression in health care is reflective of an approach to harness healthy living. This book addresses the complex concerns and issues to provide a comprehensive and holistic view in planning and designing of modern hospitals.
3. Step By Step Hospital Designing And Planning
By Purnima Sharma and Sangeet Sharma
Publication Date: 30th June 2010
Price: Rs. 526
This unique book presents stepwise approach to designing and building a clinic or a hospital. This book includes most of the ideas, plans and guidelines conferring to ISO standards. Contains 6 chapters comprising of facilities and norms for planning, the backbone of hospitals, planning and design consideration for OT block and ICU, medical clinics and alternative healing Methods.
4. Planning and Designing Healthcare Facilities: A Lean, Innovative, and Evidence-Based Approach
By Vijai Kumar Singh and Paul Lillrank
Publication Date: 21st November 2017
Price: Rs. 5423
This book explores recent developments in hospital design. Medical facilities have been adapted to the requirements of clinical functions. Recently, the needs of patients and clinical pathways have been recognized. With the patient at the centre of the process, the flow of tasks becomes the guiding principle as hospital design must employ evidence-based thinking, and process management methods such as Lean become central.
The authors explain new concepts to reduce healthcare delivery cost, but keep quality the primary consideration. Concepts such as sustainability (i.e., Green Hospitals) and the use of new tools and technologies, such as information and communication technology (ICT), Lean, and evidence-based planning and innovations are fully explained.
- 5. Hospital Architecture
By Christine Nickl-Weller and Hans Nickl
Publication Date: 3rd January 2012
Price: Rs. 7045
As life expectancy is extended, medical procedures continually advance and competition between health care providers intensifies, hospital design becomes increasingly important. The idea that patients benefit from their surroundings has been acknowledged for some time, but it is only now that this concept has become the key to architectural solutions when building or redesigning hospitals and health care facilities. Drawing on over 60 examples from across the world, this volume illustrates the contemporary approach to hospital architecture. Today, architects and interior designers are striving to combat the typical sterile hospital atmosphere with innovative and exciting concepts, whilst still, of course, maintaining a high level of hygiene and functionality. The projects chosen range from new private clinics to extensions and conversions of large inner-city clinical centres and specialized hospitals.
6. Emergency Department Design: Maximizing Emergency Medical Facility Productivity and Patient Work-Through with Interior Design, Hospital Planning and 27 Actual Case Studies, 2nd Edition
By Jon Huddy and Tracy G. Sanson
Publication Date: 23rd June 2017
Price: Rs. 15873
From the American College of Emergency Physicians, a practical, approachable, sequential guide to planning, designing, and building or renovating an emergency department. Written to help emergency physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals learn how the process works – but it’s equally valuable to architects and designers and the forms they represent.
Emergency Department Design will help you take the lead on your design team, use your energies to make a positive impact on the project, and develop an emergency department design that meets the goals of your organization and the expectations of the patients, families, and communities you serve.
7. Innovative Hospital Design
By Carles Broto
Publication Date: 7th February 2014
Price: Rs. 3860
In this volume a selection of prestigious architectural firms present their latest hospital and health centre projects, which are brimming with original approaches and bold designs. The projects featured are illustrated with full colour photographs, architectural plans and details and commentaries by the designing architects. The book also contains extensive information on the materials and construction processes used that complement the architectural ideas. This book will undoubtedly be an endless source of inspiration for architects and designers, the projects featured signalling the future of this architectural typology.
8. Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943 (Architecture, Landscape and Amer Culture)
By Annmarie Adams
Publication Date: 30th January 2008
Price: Rs. 3970
In the history of medicine, hospitals are usually seen as passive reflections of advances in medical knowledge and technology. In Medicine by Design, Annmarie Adams challenges these assumptions, examining how hospital design influenced the development of twentieth-century medicine and demonstrating the importance of these specialized buildings in the history of architecture.
Identifying the roles played by architects in medical history and those played by patients, doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals in the design of hospitals, Adams also links architectural spaces to everyday hospital activities, from meal preparation to the ways in which patients entered the hospital and awaited treatment.
Methodologically and conceptually innovative, Medicine by Design makes a significant contribution to the histories of both architectural and medical practices in the twentieth century.
9. General Hospitals Planning and Design
By Debra Levin
Publication Date: 15th September 2014
Price: Rs. 2920
General hospitals provide multidisciplinary healthcare services, so the design of a general hospital is comprehensive and distinctive. However, creating a flexible, healthy, and sustainable environment is the basic principle that all healthcare designers must follow. The exterior and interior environment may influence professional staff and patients, and thus may have impact on speed of recovery. In this book, selected general hospital projects present innovative architectural and interior design as reference for designers and directors of healthcare facilities. An consideration for designers of modern healthcare facilities is not only to provide a clean and efficient healthcare environment is important because patient health, safety, and emotions don’t depend on the staff’s professional skills only-the hospital environment also has healing benefits. The children’s hospitals (paediatrics/adolescent), women’s hospitals (obstetrics and gynaecology), cancer centres (radiotherapy and chemotherapy), and mental health hospitals included in the book are “works of art” with healing functions, created by architects, interior designers, artists, and healthcare staff together.
10. Sustainable Healthcare Architecture 2nd Edition
By Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori
Publication Date: 22nd July 2013
Price: Rs. 4420
With this book, Robin Guenther and Gail Vittori show us how critical the green building mission is to the future of human health and secures a lasting legacy that will continue to challenge and focus the green building movement, the healthcare industry, and the world for years to come.
Special features of this edition include:
- 55 new project case studies, including comparisons of key sustainability indicators for general and specialty hospitals, sub-acute and ambulatory care facilities, and mixed-use buildings
- New and updated guest contributor essays spanning a range of health-focused sustainable design topics
- Evolving research on the value proposition for sustainable healthcare buildings
- Profiles of 5 leading healthcare systems and their unique sustainability journeys, including the UK National Health Service, Kaiser Permanente, Partners HealthCare, Providence Health &Services, and Gunderson Health System
- Focus on the intersection of healthcare, resilience, and health promotion imperative in the face of extreme weather events
- Comparison of healthcare facility-focused green building rating systems from around the world
Sustainable Healthcare Architecture, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the design, construction, and operation of state-of-the-art sustainable healthcare facilities.
11. Architecture and the Modern Hospital: Nosokomeion to Hygeia (Routledge Research in Architecture) 1st Edition
By Julie Willis, Philip Goad and Cameron Logan
Publication Date: 11th October 2018
Price: Rs. 9640
More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about health and disease and perceptions of bodily integrity and security. However, the rich and genuinely global architectural history of these hospitals is poorly understood and largely forgotten.
This book explores the rapid evolution of hospital design in the twentieth century, analysing the ways in which architects and other specialists reimagined the modern hospital. It examines how the vast expansion of medical institutions over the course of the century was enabled by new approaches to architectural design and it highlights the emerging political conviction that physical health would become the cornerstone of human welfare.
12. Innovations in Hospital Architecture 1st Edition
By Stephen Verderber
Publication Date: 10th May 2010
Price: Rs. 5290
This indispensable reference book captures key recent developments in the rapidly evolving field of sustainable hospital architecture. Today’s architects must provide hospitals which enable high quality care for diverse patient populations in carbon neutral care settings, and this book succinctly considers what needs to be done in order to meet that challenge. The contemporary hospital is viewed in the context of global climate change, the planet’s diminishing natural resources and the spiralling cost of operating healthcare facilities.
Stephen Verderber considers the future of the hospital, and supplies a compendium of 100 planning and design considerations for the building type. The book includes twenty-eight case studies of built and unbuilt hospitals from around the world. These are grouped into five types – autonomous community based hospitals, children’s hospitals, rehabilitation and elderly care centres and hospitals, regional medical centre campuses, and visionary (unbuilt) projects.
Beautifully and extensively illustrated with many photographs, diagrams and floor plans, this is essential reading for all architects, planners, engineers, product manufacturers, clients, healthcare providers and government agencies involved in the present and future of sustainable healthcare environments.
13. Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future 1st Edition
By Naida Grunden and Charles Hagood
Publication Date: 16th March 2012
Price: Rs. 3220
Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future explains how hospitals can be built to increase patient safety and reduce wait times while eliminating waste, lowering costs, and easing some of healthcare’s most persistent problems. It supplies a simplified timeline of architectural planning―from start to finish―to guide readers through the various stages of the Lean design development philosophy, including Lean architectural design and Lean work design. It includes examples from several real healthcare facility design and construction projects, as well as interviews with hospital leaders and architects.
14. Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design (Third Edition)
By Richard L. Miller FAIA, Earl S. Swensson and J. Todd Robinson
Publication Date: 23rd April 2012
Price: Rs. 4420
A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them. The third edition of this comprehensive work includes all new case studies and updated text providing innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities in the rapidly changing landscape of the healthcare world.
Drawing on some 50 years of experience at one of the country’s leading healthcare architecture firms―Earl Swensson Associates (ESa)―authors Richard L. Miller, FAIA, Earl S. Swensson, FAIA, and J. Todd Robinson, AIA, explore the current and emerging trends in medical care, technology, and delivery as practiced in a rich cross section of examples of healthcare facilities from around the country. In this new edition they touch on such topics as Lean and LEED practices, evidence-based design, Planetree design, and other important issues facing contemporary and future designers. The authors take a fresh look at the latest advances in the field and explain how these advances are affecting the design of hospitals and other healthcare facilities and the resulting impact for the future. 250 full-colour and 25 black-and-white illustrations
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