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Since the mid-1990s, an exciting building project has been underway: new cancer care centers that offer a new approach to architecture and health. Named after Maggie Keswick and cofounded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, these centers aim to be at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer. The Architecture of Hope showcases these structures where, under one roof, patients can access help with information, benefits, psychological support, and stress-reducing strategies. The book offers a history of the centers, as well as profiles of individual centers throughout the U.K. The Architecture of Hope is a testament to these places of hope and healing, available to anybody, whether or not they are afflicted with this terrible disease.
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Charles Jencks is the author of several best-selling books on architecture. He divides his time between lecturing, writing and designing in the USA, in the UK and in Europe. To visit Charles Jencks' website click here
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This book is moving, ambitious and brave. Moving because it is highly personal; ambitious because it discusses the huge problem of modern buildings for health. And brave because like Maggie Keswick, it is not afraid to challenge medical orthodoxy. -- Spectator
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Well-illustrated survey in which Jencks and Heathcote show the importance and hybrid quality of Maggie's cancer care centres. They look at how these centres, offering psychological, social and informational guidance, will inevitably grow in the future with an aging population. 223 pages : illustrations, plans, portraits ; 30 cm. First edition, first printing. Red-brown cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 017763
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> Since the mid-1990s an exciting building project has been under way-new cancer caring centres that offer a fresh approach to both architecture and health. The aim is for these centres, named after Maggie Jencks and co-founded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, to be situated at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer. Already six have been completed and six 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 the large hospital, and huge NHS, they present a face that is welcoming, risk-taking, aesthetic and spiritual: with their commitment to the other arts, including landscape, they bring in the full panoply of constructive means. Maggie's Centres are a new mixture of building types 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. Seller Inventory # Batch-FM574-VG-12202
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