by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Just as a team approach is used to treat a serious medical condition, a team effort can result in a more effective wayfinding system for a complex healthcare environment. Unfortunately, teams can sometimes play shorthanded. The need for a new wayfinding system usually...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Stick your neck out, and your odds of winning are at least 50/50. You can increase those odds by careful preparation, by constant learning, and by striving to stretch your own boundaries. —Jim Whittaker It’s not often that, as an adult, you get to go to...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | Trends
In the healthcare design world, we are living in what a Chinese philosopher once called “interesting times”—and pronounced them a “curse.” There is no question that “interesting times” are characterized by a host of new ideas, of new ways of doing things. And the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Banners and sunscreens Rainier can provide fabric displays for any environment. Unique print or appliqué banners of any size or shape provide wayfinding; AdShades serve simultaneously as sunscreens and advertising. The company provided Virginia Mason, a Seattle...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
In 1991 I began creating what I call Solar Spectrum Environmental Artworks, using prisms and mirrors to harness the sun’s power to create rainbows in architectural spaces where people live and work. Four years later I asked the great American scientist Dr. Jonas...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
When a renowned children’s hospital seeks to expand its market, it shouldn’t be surprising when it does so in spectacular fashion. The Seattle-based Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center was already well established in the...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Imagine a cancer center constructed without materials that contain known human carcinogens, or a hospital that serves organic food and meat without added antibiotics. These are among the more than 160 strategies that define a new age of “high-performance healing...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
The need for complicated, lifesaving services often drives the shape and layout of healthcare buildings. In contrast, parking structures are staid and solid and are at their best when they go unnoticed. Because of the utilitarian nature of parking structures, they are...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
For years Erminia (Mimi) Guarneri, MD, has, like Don Quixote, been battling windmills. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine in keeping her cardiology patients from returning for yet another balloon angioplasty or stent, she knew there had to be a...
by HCD Guest Author | Mar 1, 2005 | News
Philosophy The guiding research and educational philosophy of Texas A&M University’s Architecture for Health program, which was established in 1966, is for its students and faculty to undertake actual case-study projects with clients who have real needs,...
