Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design

A celebrated standard for architects, planners, and hospital administrators, “Hospital and Healthcare Facility Design” has introduced three generations of students and professionals to the state-of-the-art practice of creating structures that are healing environments for those who are ill, while promoting wellness and comfort for all who use them.

Drawing on some fifty years of experience at one of the country’s leading healthcare architecture firms – Earl Swensson Associates (ESa) – authors Richard L. Miller, FAIA, Earl S. Swensson, FAIA, and J. Todd Robinson, AIA, explore the current and emerging trends in medical care, technology, and delivery as practiced in a rich cross section of examples of healthcare facilities from around the country.

This third edition includes all new case studies and updated text providing innovative ideas and practical guidelines for planning and designing facilities in the rapidly changing landscape of the healthcare world. New are also such topics as Lean and LEED practices, evidence-based design, Planetree design, and other important issues facing contemporary and future designers. The authors explore the latest thinking on everything from vast new medical campuses to continuous-care retirement communities and from freestanding facilities to template designs for networks of hospitals.

250 full-color and 25 black-and-white illustrations.