Homepage       Nature of Health Design Archive

Related Articles -  Nature of Health Design

Life Model  Increasingly artificial environment in healthcare

Community of Intellect  Building Health in the Community

Building Health     Susan Mansfield reports on the Lighthouse Health exhibitions for the Scotsman.

Raising the Quality  Nature of Health Design for Art & Architecture Journal  Issue No 59  

Embedded Design   Healthcare buildings must be embedded into the natural surrounding them.

Bringing Nature Nearer   On Japan  The monthly newsletter from the Embassy of Japan

Maggie's Centre  Community architecture which supports complementary care and encourages patient-orientated self help.

Teachings of the Orient  Visit to Japan to attend the Forum of Healing Environment

Faith House   A highly regarded yet modest building found in especially attractive Heathland beside Poole Harbour and East Purbeck.

Natural Philosophy   Report on the benefits of giving patients access to nature via design to promote their wellbeing and recovery

Gupha Report   A report on the Global Universities Programme in Healthcare Architecture GUPHA in Genoa. July2002

Grounds for improvement   Article explores 'hospital landscape as image' and provides a vision of a future facility where nature is allowed to subjugate institutional blocks.

Access Denied   Comparing the access to nature given to patients in the UK and Japan HD

Streets Ahead   A vision of the potential for open, social areas in hospitals which are offered by circulation spaces, following the lead of innovators overseas.

Personal Effects Article   Research into Healing Environments

Eco Ward Engaging Nature  Tokyo University Lecture

Second Nature   Learning from hospital art and design in Japan

Japan Specific   

Art in Japanese Hospitals The Arts in Health Care. Kings Fund  

Big in Japan  Some of the outstanding examples of recent acute hospital design in Japan . 

Turning Japanese Review of three provincial community hospitals on the island of Kyushu.

Hi-Tech Hospitals  Most new Japanese hospitals have adopted an international style

Vision of Public Health Care in Japan  Certain aspects of Health Care provision precipitated by social changes.