Innovations in Hospice Architecture Contributor(s): Verderber, Stephen (Author), Refuerzo, Ben J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367312921 ISBN-13: 9780367312923 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Public, Commercial & Industrial - Medical | Home Care - Architecture | Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation |
Dewey: 725.51 |
LCCN: 2019030576 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 8.9" W x 10.9" (3.40 lbs) 348 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type. This Second Edition presents:
Case study projects are from Japan, Canada, Europe, Africa, Australia, Indonesia, China, the United States and South America. Thirty-six case studies are individually presented and comparatively analysed, and prognostications for the future of hospice architecture are examined. Each case includes floor plans, technical drawings and beautiful, full colour illustrations. Through an in-depth discussion of the inner profundities of hospice architecture, the book presents this type as a humane, genuine expression of the spiritual, physical and psychosocial dimensions of the contemporary death and dying movement. Written with a broad audience in mind, the book provides both technical and conceptual information, blending narrative, images and diagrammation so that the audience may understand and articulate the complexities of this specialized building type in professional practice contexts. |