Design for Health

Terri Peters is a Canadian architect, writer and researcher now based in Toronto, who previously lived and worked in Denmark and the UK for 12 years. She has a broad network of multi-disciplinary collaborators, relating to sustainability research, building transformation, health and wellbeing, as well as the employment of new technologies.  She is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Toronto, investigating the relationship between sustainable architecture and health, particularly analysing how architectural design can improve patient wellbeing in residential care environments. She has organised conferences, served on discussion panels and award juries, and made presentations to various international construction industry and research institutions. She is the editor of two recent publications: Experimental Green Strategies: Redefining Ecological Design Research, AD (Wiley, 2011) and Inside Smartgeometry: Expanding the Architectural Possibilities of Computational Design (Wiley 2013).

"Serves as a timely, topical and thought-provoking reminder of the potential of our industry to significantly and tangibly improve the quality of people's lives through better buildings."  (The NBS, July 2017)

• About the Guest-Editor 05Terri PetersIntroductionInterconnected Approachesto Sustainable Architecture 06Terri PetersDecoding Modern HospitalsAn Architectural History 16Annmarie AdamsSuperarchitectureBuilding for Better Health 24Terri PetersLean, Green and HealthyLandscape and Health 32Julian WeyerSalutogenic and Biophilic Design as Therapeutic Approaches to Sustainable Architecture 42Richard MazuchEnvironmentally Smart DesignDesigning for Social Wellbeing Across the City and in the Workplace 48Alisdair McGregor, Ann Marie Aguilar and Victoria LockhartHumanist Principles, Sustainable Design and SalutogenicsA New Form of Healthcare Architecture 56Corbett LyonMaggie’s ArchitectureThe Deep Affinities Between Architecture and Health 66Charles JencksHealthy Patient Rooms in HospitalsEmotional Wellbeing Naturally 76Sylvia LeydeckerCan Architecture Heal?Buildings as Instruments of Health 82Michael Murphy and Jeffrey MansfieldMultisensory ArchitectureThe Dynamic Interplay of Environment, Movement and Social Function 90Sean Ahlquist, Leah Ketcheson and Costanza ColombiArchitects as First RespondersPortable Healthcare Architecture in a Climate-Altered World 100Stephen VerderberA Sense of CoherenceSupporting the Healing Process 108Giuseppe BoscheriniCultivating the ‘In-Between’Humanising the Modern Healthcare Experience 114Terry MontgomeryRegenerative AgentsPatient-Focused Architectures 112Sunand PrasadCounterpoint Transforming HospitalsBuilding Restorative Healthcare 128Robin GuentherContributors 134