30th Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture: Christine Binswanger in conversation with Jason Frantzen, Hashim Sarkis, and students
A 30-minute talk by Christine Binswanger will be followed by a conversation with Dean Hashim Sarkis and Jason Frantzen. After the presentation, Christine Binswanger, Jason Frantzen, and Hashim Sarkis will be joined by MArch students Latifa Alkhayat and Eytan Levi.
For far too long hospital design has been an exclusive discipline of healthcare specialists. While functionality and technical requirements are large components of hospital architecture, there is great space for creativity. Just as the human body works only when each organ, limb or tendon is healthy enough do its job, the hospital – as a complex organism – can succeed only when its parts are efficiently designed and coherently interconnected. From mediating between various stakeholders to navigating technical requirements, from imagining how a patient room can contribute to healing and how better connections between medical departments can increase doctor collaboration; the architect, inherently fascinated with complexity, is the perfect ‘generalist’ for the job.
As a typology, the hospital is one of the most pressing to address; hospital stock is aging and in need of replacement. Within this context, Christine Binswanger and Jason Frantzen will discuss the hospital as a healing habitat and its role as an integral organ of the city. Starting with REHAB Basel which opened in 2002, Herzog & de Meuron are developing a reputation for designing hospitals that care – for patients, for relatives, for employees; for cities and their surroundings. The University Children’s Hospital in Zurich and the New North Zealand Hospital in Hillerød, Denmark are both under construction; a project to expand the University Hospital in Basel is on the boards. Herzog & de Meuron are also currently collaborating with HDR on the UCSF Helen Diller Medical Center in San Francisco.
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