Innovations in Hospice Architecture

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments with respect to this rapidly evolving building type. This Second Edition presents:

• an overview of the historical origins of the contemporary hospice
• the diverse variations on the basic premise of hospice care
• a review of the scant architectural literature published on this subject to date
• a broad series of case studies of exemplary hospices around the world
• planning and design concepts for palliative care environments.

Case study projects are from Japan, Canada, Europe, Africa, Australia, Indonesia, China, the United States and South America. Thirty-six case studies are individually presented and comparatively analysed, and prognostications for the future of hospice architecture are examined. Each case includes f