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Books and Book Editorships:

T. Gregoric, E. Temmel (ed.):
"Healthcare Center - Learning from Denmark";
Sonderzahl Verlag, Wien, 2021, ISBN: 978-3-85449-591-8; 160 pages.



English abstract:
The understanding of design has always been significantly influenced by new findings in medical research. Throughout history, notions of the body and the idea of health and illness were determined by developments in politics, economics and culture, while innovations in medical
treatments and advancements in technology directly influenced the typologies of healthcare facilities.
Healthcare Center - Learning from Denmark examines past, existing, and emerging forms of healthcare architectures and seeks to build on insights from them to develop visions for new typologies and programs. Healthcare is one of the main design research fields undertaken at the Architectural Typology and Design research unit at the Institute fo Architecture of the Vienna
University of Technology. This, the first issue in the series, approaches how complex program organisation and technology intertwines with the heightened sensitivity of a human being.
Responding to the current critical social and environmental needs, the publication series brings together a set of research and response focuses, both real and imaginative - Education, Healthcare, Tourism, Production and more - to actively challenge the role of the architectural profession as a whole to help elevate current realities.

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Keywords:
Healthcare, Architecture, new Typologies, health, illness,

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