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The Architecture of Hope. Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres

The Architecture of Hope

Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres

Auteur:Edwin Heathcote, Charles Jencks

Uitgever:Frances Lincoln

ISBN: 978-0-7112-2597-8

  • Hardcover
  • Engels
  • 224 pagina's
  • 1 apr. 2010

'The Architecture of Hope' focuses on an exciting building project that has been underway since the mid-1990s - new cancer caring centres that offer a fresh approach to both architecture and health. Named after Maggie Keswick and co-founded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, these centres aim to be situated at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer.

Already some have been completed and some more are in the pipeline. Starting in Scotland, where the first were built, they have implications well beyond their modest size and origins. Complementary to NHS hospitals, they present a face that is welcoming, risk-taking, aesthetic and life-affirming; and with their commitment to the other arts, including landscape, they bring in the full panoply of constructive means.

Maggie's Centres are a new mixed building type for healing that have different roots in the past. As Jencks and Heathcote show, this hybrid quality is a response to the condition of cancer; its myriad causes and bewildering number of possible therapies. The 'architecture of hope' is this new emergent hybrid genre, consisting of various metaphors that correspond in kind to the many different types of cancer and their various treatments.

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