Hospitals for the 1970s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103025 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Weeks (0000-0003-1777-1656, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 197-203 |
| Publication date | 1965-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/00005650-196510000-00002 |
| OpenAlex | W2061754580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The most superficial chronology of hospital design in Britain since the end of the war shows a gradually cohering pattern of development from a wide variety of specific solutions towards a small number of general solutions. This process must continue into the '70s, as two problems which have been rumbling in the background of hospital design for a long time are seen clearly to be central issues. These are the problem of obsolescence in hospital buildings and that of briefing and designing hospitals more quickly. I believe that the two problems are linked but that solving them involves the breakdown of our traditional concept of a work of architecture as a determinable and finite object. In the '40s what little planning there was drew on pre-war experience here, on war-time building in Sweden and Switzerland, and on immediately prewar projects in France. Published material was rare. Design was often based on the ideal of southern orientation for patients' bedrooms, and little else. Almost the only accepted models for avant-garde architects remained Aalto's Paimo sanitorium and
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| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1966 - 2021 (56) |
| Highly cited | No |