The architecture of hope : Maggie's cancer caring centres

著者

• Jencks, Charles

書誌事項

The architecture of hope : Maggie's cancer caring centres

Charles Jencks

Frances Lincoln Limited, c2015

New edtion

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252) and index

New, fully revised edition

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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 sixteen have been completed, with at least seven more 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. The Centres have been designed by celebrity architects, including Richard Murphy, Page and Park, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Richard MacCormac, the late Kisho Kurokawa, Piers Gough, Wilkinson Eyre and Rem Koolhaas. Additional Centres are being planned by Norman Foster & Partners, Thomas Heatherwick and Steven Holl. The Centres are committed first to helping cancer sufferers help themselves, to inspiring carers to care more, and secondly to architecture. It is the arts and building, important allies in the perennial struggle with cancer, that lead to the 'architecture of hope'. As people walk into a centre after a diagnosis, or enervating treatment, often disoriented and lacking in self-confidence, they enter another world which acknowledges their importance and a basic condition that may become prevalent: living with cancer and not losing hope. This is a new edition of The Architecture of Hope, first published in 2010, but now completely updated and redesigned with new material throughout, and additional essays about the role of art at Maggie's and about the gardens and landscaping. There is also a new section showcasing the way architecture students have responded to the Maggie's brief.

目次

Introduction: The Potion Called Hope PART ONE: ARCHITECTURE, CANCER AND HOPE The Architecture of Hope, Charles Jencks Building a Life Beyond Cancer, Laura Lee Architecture and Health, Edwin Heathcote Art at Maggie's, Richard Cork The Garden Essences, Angie Butterfield PART TWO: MAGGIE'S CENTRES Edinburgh, Richard Murphy Glasgow, Page and Park Dundee, Frank Gehry Inverness, Page and Park Fife, Zaha Hadid London, Richard Rogers Cheltenham, Richard MacCormac Gartnavel, Rem Koolhaas Nottingham, Piers Gough Swansea, Kisho Kurokawa Hong Kong, Frank Gehry Newcastle, Ted Cullinan Aberdeen, Snohetta Merseyside, Carmody Groarke Lanarkshire, Reiach and Hall Oxford, Wilkinson Eyre PART THREE: FUTURE CENTRES London St Barts, Stephen Holl Leeds, Thomas Heatherwick Cardiff, Dow Jones Forth Valley, Nord Manchester, Norman Foster Southampton ALA Barcelona, Benedetta Tagliabule PART FOUR: INSPIRED BY MAGGIE'S Uplifting Architecture, Charles Page The Students Speak, Ann Heylighen Notes on Growth Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB20494389
• ISBN:
  • 9780711236356
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: 256 p.
• 大きさ: 29 cm