The architecture of hope : Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres / Charles Jencks, Edwin Heathcote
2010, First Edition. London : Frances Lincoln. First edition, first printing. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Bumped corners. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #456987
ISBN: 9780711225978
Physical description; 223 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: A new hybrid architecture? / Charles Jencks and Edwin Heathcote -- The Architecture of Hope / Charles Jencks -- Building a life beyond cancer: How Maggie's Centres work / Laura Lee -- Maggie's Centres: Edinburgh (Richard Murphy Architects); Glasgow: (Page and Park); Inverness (Page and Park); Dundee (Frank Gehry); Fife (Zaha Hadid); London (Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners) -- Future Centres: Cotswolds (MJP - Sir Richard MacCormac); Oxford (Wilkinson Eyre); Nottingham (Piers Gough); South West Wales (Kisho Kurokawa); North East (Foreign Office); Gartnavel (OMA) -- Unrealized Centres: Cambridge (Danile Libeskind); Sheffield (Hawkins Brown); Lanarkshire (Reiach & Hall - Neil Gillsespie) -- Art and Maggie's -- Notes on the Growth of Maggie's Centres / Charles Jencks and Katy Mahood -- Maggie's: The Architectural brief -- Bibliography -- Index. Subjects; Keswick, Maggie. Hospices. (Terminal care) Design and construction. Cancer Hospitals. Terminal care facilities. Hospices (Terminal care). Patient satisfaction. Cancer Care Facilities. Hospices.
Price: €60.00