Hospitals Integrated Design

Hospitals Integrated Design is a substantial mid-century reference work on hospital architecture and healthcare planning by Isadore Rosenfield, published in the Progressive Architecture Library by Reinhold Publishing Corporation.

This second edition brings together a wide-ranging study of hospital design, from the integration of facilities and general functional principles to nursing units, X-ray and radiation therapy departments, laboratories, operating suites, maternity and paediatric services, outpatient departments, service areas and specialist hospitals.

Richly illustrated with diagrams, drawings, charts and photographs, the book is a valuable historical source on how hospitals were planned, organised, lit, equipped and built in the 1950s.

Rosenfield was an architect, planner and educator whose contribution to hospital design was especially significant in New York and internationally. The volume also covers communicable disease and tuberculosis hospitals, cancer and chronic disease hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, rehabilitation and cardiac facilities, small hospitals, staff housing, daylighting, artificial illumination, mechanical plant, construction details, finishing and costs.

This is an excellent acquisition for architects, healthcare designers, researchers, medical historians and collectors of specialist architecture books. If you are looking for a serious English-language book on hospital architecture, healthcare design and modern medical facilities, this copy deserves a place in your collection.

• Encadernação: capa dura com sobrecapas
• Ano: 1951 (2.ª ed.)
• Páginas: 397
• ISBN: n/d