Architectural expression of medical care functions. II. Factors which determine hospital design.

Lindheim, Roslyn

doi:10.2105/ajph.56.10.1668

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“…In the world of design for health and healthcare, however, the rational and functional planning may rise to a more significant level as the stakes can sometimes be life or death. Rosalyn Lindheim (1966), an architecture professor at Berkeley who would later design the first Planetree Unit in San Francisco described the complexity of hospital design.A hospital is one of the most complex contemporary planning and design areas. It is in many ways a microcosm of the larger social context of which it is a part.…”

Section: Design For Health and Healthcarementioning

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Balancing Form-Giving and Planning in Design for Health

Hamilton

2024

HERD

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How often have we heard the quote attributed to Sullivan (1896), "Form follows function"? Viollet-le-Duc ( 2023) is described as having earlier said, "a rationally designed structure may not necessarily be beautiful, but no building can be beautiful that does not have a rationally designed structure." I have often told my design students that architecture involves both artistic formgiving and rational planning. Architecture without effective and functional planning is simply sculpture.Architecture without effective and functional planning is simply sculpture.

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Section: Design For Health and Healthcarementioning

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Balancing Form-Giving and Planning in Design for Health

Hamilton

2024

HERD

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“…3 Meanwhile, another Environmental Design colleague, Roslyn Lindheim published studies on improving the design of hospitals by addressing larger systems of social interaction or sets of "needs and activities linked together to accomplish a desired end." 4 In describing his own research agenda in 1966, Van der Ryn express his interest in "shortening the time lag between societal needs and their reflection in architectural form." 5 While such research addressed questions about improving architectural form from the users points of view, such users were generally assumed to be relatively passive consumers of architectural and social services for whom environments might be better 'fitted.'…”

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Revolution or Co-Evolution? Radical Ecology and Social Design in Berkeley, Circa 1970

Raynsford

2022

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In Berkeley, California in the late 1960s, a number of prominent architects saw it as their responsibility, not so much to serve existing social needs as to collaborate with social forces that were in the process of an entirely new world, both physically and institutionally. These architects took their cues from ecology, systems theory, and counterculture communes, theorizing a dynamic unfolding of co-evolving social subjects, within which architectural design might join together with a radical politics of egalitarian interdependence. This paper especially focuses on the research and writing of Sim van Der Ryn between 1967 and 1971, tracing his transformation from an architect primarily concerned improving the social functions of architecture to an architect most closely identified with ecology and ecological systems. These two phases of his career, I would argue, are not as separate or disjunctive as they might first appear. Rather they are the flip sides of an ecological utopianism that emerged in the work of a number of architects around 1970, but whose original problems and meanings have been obscured in subsequent decades.

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Social Isolation and Seating Patterns in an Experimental Hospital Dayroom

Holahan

1978

Environment and Behavior

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Architectural expression of medical care functions. II. Factors which determine hospital design.

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Balancing Form-Giving and Planning in Design for Health

Balancing Form-Giving and Planning in Design for Health

Revolution or Co-Evolution? Radical Ecology and Social Design in Berkeley, Circa 1970

Social Isolation and Seating Patterns in an Experimental Hospital Dayroom

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