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Van hospitaal tot a-z Groeninge: de geschiedenis van de ziekenzorg in Kortrijk
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ISBN: 9789077723876 Year: 2009 Publisher: Kortrijk Groeninghe


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Changing hospital architecture.
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ISBN: 9781859461679 1859461670 Year: 2008 Publisher: London RIBA


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Zorgzame architectuur : zorg voor wonen, wonen met zorg : verslag van een prijsvraag
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ISBN: 908517001X Year: 2003 Publisher: Utrecht College bouw ziekenhuisvoorzieningen

Medicine by design : the architect and the modern hospital 1893-1943.
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ISBN: 9780816651139 0816651132 9780816651146 0816651140 Year: 2008 Publisher: Minneapolis University of Minnesota press


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Healing spaces : the science of place and well-being
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ISBN: 9780674033368 9780674057487 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

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Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace. If our senses can lead us to a "place of healing," it is no surprise that our place in nature is of critical importance in Sternberg’s account. The health of the environment is closely linked to personal health. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighborhoods that promote healing and health for all.


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Caring architecture : institutions and relational practices
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ISBN: 1443874892 9781443874892 9781443898966 1443898961 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Architecture is hard stuff. It is formed by walls, roofs, floors, all components of hard materials, stone, glass and wood. It distributes people in space and directs their doings and movements. Institutions are even harder stuff. Order is pushed a step further by the coerciveness of discursive architectural models and caring practices, restricting options to certain ways of thinking and acting. This book illuminates how people and spaces negotiate, and often challenge, regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It contains a number of essays by authors from disciplines such as human geography, architecture, planning, design, social work and education. The contributions discuss different examples from institutions in which care is carried out, such as assisted living facilities, residential care for children, psychiatric care facilities, hospitals, and prisons. By adopting a non-representational perspective, emergent practices render visible capacities of being flexible and mouldable, in which institutional architecture is defied, contested and transformed. New situations appear which transgress physical space in partnership with those who populate it, whether humans or non-humans. This book reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and the ways in which institutions transform (or not) into caring architecture.

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