Architecture for health - 2050: an international perspective — Verderber 2010
The planning and design of hospital spaces is complex and, at times, conflicting. The architectural profession requires a high level of support, and research and critical dialogue have been splintered. This quandary is exacerbated by the massive capital investment that countries around the world make each year to improve the health of their inhabitants. To assist in correcting this predicament, key international developments in the relationship between architecture and health are explained within a dualistic conceptual framework that is both historical and futuristic. Prognostications for the year 2050 on difficulties relating to the emergence of alternative treatment facilities to the traditional acute care hospital are provided. This section of the discussion looks at the growing importance of home and community-based care, the therapeutic functions of nature, patient empowerment, the critical need for socially equitable and sustainable healthcare environments, and the need for new paradigms in the planning and design of therapeutically supportive care and treatment settings. Two movements in particular, functional deconstruction and residentialism, are discussed in depth, as is the vital importance of multidisciplinary methods in facing the worldwide research and practice problems that this century will bring.
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