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Heathcote, Edwin - Architecture Of Hope

Architecture Of Hope : Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres

By: Heathcote, Edwin (Edited by), Jencks, Charles (Edited by). Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd. Published: 01/04/2010. Audience Guide: General (US: Trade).
Hardback. Sourced from U.S.A.

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"What you all have created, in terms of architecture, is a community statement to patients and carers that Your Life Matters. Walking from the hospital into Maggie's is a concretization of hope - just as the daffodil reminds us of spring." Senior Vice President, The Wellness Community in Santa Monica

Item Details

ISBN10/13: 0711225974/9780711225978
TITLE: Architecture of Hope, The
CONTRIBUTORS: Heathcote, Edwin (Edited by), Jencks, Charles (Edited by)
IMPRINT: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
FORMAT: Hardback
PUBLICATION DATE: 01/04/2010
SUBJECT: Architecture, Family & Health, Public & Commercial, Coping With Illness
DIMENSIONS (Width x Height): 250mm x 290mm
PAGES: 224
AUDIENCE GUIDE: General (US: Trade)
ILLUSTRATIONS: 150 photos plans and drawings
CONTENTS:

The Architecture of Hope Maggie Cancer Caring Centres Preface to be written, outlining book CJ, EH 2pp The Architecture of Hope Charles Jencks 30 pp The typical situation with cancer? The power of the hybrid building. Comparative plans Lily Jencks double page spread comparison. Inescapable information and hope. 'The most difficult thing.' Metaphors R'us - the buildings. Mixing metaphors - cancer and architecture. Can Maggie Centres make a difference? What Maggie Centres Do Laura Lee 10 pp Description of how they work Architecture and Health Edwin Heathcote 30 pp History of hospital architecture; survey of contemporary practice and the problems; Maggie Centres Built 60 pp Richard Murphy Edinburgh Page & Park Glasgow Frank Gehry Dundee Page & Park Inverness Zaha Hadid Kirkaldy Fife Richard Rogers London Future Centres 40pp Wilkinson & Eyre Oxford Piers Gough Nottingham Kisho Kurokawa Swansea,SWales Foreign Office Architects Newcastle Rem Koolhaas Glasgow II The Note History of Maggie Centres Charles Jencks & Katy Mahood 20 pp From documents, photos and notes of Laura Lee, Bob Leonard, Marcia Blakenham, Sir David Landale and Nigel Cazer Appendix 1 Missing Centres 6 pp Daniel Libeskind Addenbrooks, Cambridge Hawkins & Brown Sheffield Neil Gillespie Lanarkshire Appendix 2: The Architectural Brief 2pp Index 6pp