BUILDING TO HEAL

Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals examines the problems and major
challenges faced by healthcare architecture today and presents innovative models
and solutions. Through critical, scientifically based discourse, a variety of authors
examine the functioning of the healthcare system in relation to hospital architecture,
what hospitals are missing, and how architecture can contribute to the healing
process of patients.
The publication answers these questions in three comprehensive chapters based
on the medical process: “Symptoms,” “Diagnosis,” and “Therapy.” The introductory
section describes the symptoms of the Kranke(n)haus or “sick house” and spotlights
the urgent need to take these problems seriously in the contexts of both society as
a whole and architecture. In the second section, experts from psychology, medicine,
and the related sciences, as well as from architectural theory and philosophy, take
a diagnostic look at the complex causes that lead to the “diseased house.” The
third section presents seven “agents” or scientifically investigated environmental
variables for successful therapy, incorporating tools from evidence-based design.
Finally, along thirteen international case studies it is shown how the conscious use of these environmental variables leads to a hospital architecture that promotes healing.
Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals bridges the gap between the
ever-growing knowledge on healthcare architecture and the urgent need for
planners, politicians, and the public to pay attention to one of the most important
issues in architecture today: health.

With contributions by Ercan Altinsoy, David Freis, Michal Gath-Morad, Linus
Hofrichter, Julia Kirch, Joy Knoblauch, Gemma Koppen, Lukas Kunz, Torsten Lange,
Andres Lepik, Paul Lillrank, Helene M. Loos, Lisa Luksch, Reinhold Messner, Jonas
Niemann, Beate Rössler, Lars Steffensen, Roger S. Ulrich, Tanja C. Vollmer, and
Marc Wittmann.

Editor | Tanja C. Vollmer, Andres Lepik und Lisa Luksch
ISBN number | 978-3-9819240-9-1
Price | 48 Euro (Museumsshop / CEDON Bookshop)