This book provides designers and students with the first in-depth analysis of the architecture of the world-renowned Maggies Cancer Care Centres, conceived by Maggie Keswick Jencks, a terminally ill cancer patient, and her husband Charles Jencks, landscape designer and architectural critic. The book explores the interactions between architecture and social activity in the centres and examines how and why they are so successful addressing themes from the brief (Maggie Jencks Blueprint), to the manipulation of sensory and atmospheric qualities, to how the surrounding environment provides occupants with a sense of refuge and comfort. The book also includes a comparative review of all 28 Maggies Centres, designed by a select list of celebrated architects (including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, and Snųhetta) and features over 60 pages of building information an invaluable reference source for designers alongside the main thematic discussion.
The success of the Maggies Centres has important global implications for the improvement of the design of care structures and therapeutic environments. The centres have established a flexible design methodology capable of uplifting the quality of life of the people involved. By helping to understand and identify these parameters, this book will provide important insights for all students, scholars, and professionals involved in healthcare architecture, architecture for social care, as well as all those interested in the broad impact of architectural environments on people.
Daugiau informacijos
Takes an in-depth look at the architecture of the Maggie's Cancer Care Centres and their impact as therapeutic environments.
Foreword: Maggies Programme interview with Laura Lee (Maggies Chief
Executive)
Section
1. VISION
1. Historic overview of the Maggies Centres (1994-present), D. Ricchi
(Oxford Brookes University, UK)
2. Maggies Architectural Brief, A. Placidi, D. Ricchi (Oxford Brookes
University, UK), D. Uzzell (University of Surrey, UK)
3. From Social Vision to Architectural Propositions: the evolving blueprint
of the Maggies Centres, O. Sarfatti (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Section
2. BUILDINGS
4. Spatial Fields, A. Placidi (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
5. Furnitecture, A. Placidi (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
6. Atmosphere, A. Placidi (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Section
3. EXPERIENCE
7. Therapeutic Space, C. Frisone (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
8. Social Interaction and Privacy in a Maggies Centres, S. Poncelet
9. Affordance in a Maggies Centre, M. Cumming
Afterword, Marcia Blakenham
Appendix: Comparative Review of 28 Maggies Centres building
information/text/drawings
References
Index
Andrea Placidi is Subject Coordinator for Interior Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK and the Research Lead for the Therapeutic Environment research group.
Daria Ricchi holds a PhD from Princeton University and is a Research Fellow in the School of Architecture at Oxford Brookes University, UK.
David Uzzell is Professor Emeritus of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey, UK and formerly Director of the Environmental Psychology Research Group.
