Description
Presents a global overview of the architecture of healthcare facilities in the pre-modern era.
About the Author
Mohammad Gharipour is Professor of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Planning at Morgan State University in Baltimore, USA. His other publications include Social Housing in the Middle East (co-edited with Kivanc Kilinc, 2019), The Historiography of Persian Architecture (2015) and Persian Gardens and Pavilions: Reflections in In Poetry, Arts and History (I.B. Tauris, 2013).
Reviews
Health and Architecture synthesizes new scholarship on structures and functions of healing spaces across an impressive geographic range from antiquity to the present. The four themes of religiosity, polity, typology, and design structure the seventeen contributors' diverse explorations of healthcare from within homes to hospitals. * Marta Hanson, John Hopkins University, USA *
In the wake of the global pandemic, Health and Architecture offers a collection of timely and far-reaching essays. Valuable for teachers and essential for scholars, this selection of carefully researched articles on architecture and medicine will spark conversations and catalyze research for decades to come. * Carla Yanni, Rutgers University, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350217379
Author Mohammad Gharipour
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 1260g