Health and Architecture offers a uniquely global overview of the healthcare facility in the pre-modern era, engaging in a cross-cultural analysis of the architectural response to medical developments and the formation of specialized hospitals as an independent building typology. Whether constructed as part of Chinese palaces in the 15th century or the religious complexes in 16th century Ottoman Istanbul, the healthcare facility throughout history is a built environment intended to promote healing and caring.

The essays in this volume address how the relationships between architectural forms associated with healthcare and other buildings in the pre-modern era, such as bathhouses, almshouses, schools and places of worship, reflect changing attitudes towards healing. They explore the impact of medical advances on the design of hospitals across various times and geographies, and examine the historic construction processes and the stylistic connections between places of care and other building types, and their development in urban context.

Deploying new methodological, interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to the analysis of healthcare facilities, Health and Architecture demonstrates how the spaces of healthcare themselves offer some of the most powerful and practical articulations of therapy.

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Preface

Places of Care and Healing: Context, Design, and Development in History, Mohammad Gharipour

The Hospital Design in History: The Dichotomy of Religious and Secular Contexts, Guenter B. Risse

A Plan for the King and the Sick: Portuguese Hospital Architecture during the Age of Exploration, Danielle Abdon

Healing of the Poor: The Hospital of Our Lady of Potterie in Bruges and the Miracle Book (1520–21), Miyako Sugiyama

‘The Love of Friends Made This in the Cause of Humanity’: Therapeutic Environment in Quaker Asylum Design at the York Retreat, Ann-Marie Akehurst

Dar al-Shifa’ or Bimaristan: Islamic Hospitals of Damascus, Sivas, and Cairo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries, Richard McClary

The Body of the City: Medicine and Urban Renewal in Sixtus IV’s Rome, Johanna Heinrichs

Spaces of Healing in Early Modern Portuguese Empire: Changing Public Health and Hospital Buildings on Mozambique Island, Eugénia Rodrigues

From Exigency to Civic Pride: The Development of Early Australian Hospitals, Julie Willis

Misericórdias: Healthcare and Welfare Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal, Joana Pinho

Making the Home a Healing Space: Self-cultivating Practices in Early Modern China, Ying Zhang

For Care and Salvation: Leprosy Hostels in Pre-Modern Japan, circa 1200–1800, Susan L. Burns

Purity and Progress: The First Maternity Hospitals in the United States, Jhennifer Amundson

Health as Harmony: The Pellegrinaio Cycle of Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, Margaret Bell

Uterus House: Incubating Obstetrics in Early Modern Bologna, Kim Sexton

Healing by Design: An Experiential Approach to Early Modern Ottoman Hospital Architecture, Nina Macaraig

Architectural Prescriptions: Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Shift from the Pre-Modern to the Modern Hospital, Stuart Bill Leslie

Bibliographies

Index

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