'Building to Heal': New exhibition explores the future of healthcare architecture

The Architekturmuseum der TUM (Pinakothek der Moderne) in Munich, Germany, is to launch an exhibition on hospital design. Titled Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals, the show is intended as “an impulse and stimulus for this rethinking,” with three sections comprising the themes: Experiment, Evidence, and Exchange.“Hospital architecture as a building typology has a long and complex history of development, driven by rapid medical advances,” the organizers said in a statement about the exhibition. “In the twentieth century, the factors of efficiency, economy, flexibility, and rationalization increasingly dominated planning and design. Clinics have thus mutated into highly technical machines.”Read the full post on Bustler

'Building to Heal': New exhibition explores the future of healthcare architecture

The Architekturmuseum der TUM (Pinakothek der Moderne) in Munich, Germany, is to launch an exhibition on hospital design. Titled Building to Heal: New Architecture for Hospitals, the show is intended as “an impulse and stimulus for this rethinking,” with three sections comprising the themes: Experiment, Evidence, and Exchange.

“Hospital architecture as a building typology has a long and complex history of development, driven by rapid medical advances,” the organizers said in a statement about the exhibition. “In the twentieth century, the factors of efficiency, economy, flexibility, and rationalization increasingly dominated planning and design. Clinics have thus mutated into highly technical machines.”

Read the full post on Bustler