The culture for the future of healthcare architecture. Proceedings of the 28th international public health seminar

TESIS was founded in 1992 thanks to an agreement among a group of professors from three important Italian Universities ("La Sapienza" in Rome; the University of Florence and the Polytechnic of Milan University). It is one of the first institutions based on a scientific partnership between universities in the field of healthcare architecture. The establishment of the Tesis Center originates from stable relationships between professors and researchers that have long been working on researches and education on themes concerning the systems and technologies for healthcare facilities. The development and the systematization of criteria, methodologies and tools aimed at optimizing the characteristics of buildings and their related equipments as well as of the healthcare services supplied, are specific goals of the Tesis Center. They are meant to be achieved through researches concerned with the whole process: from the phases of programming, designing and building to the phase of the facility management. TESIS is located in Florence, inside the Department of Architectural Technologies and Design "Pier Luigi Spadolini" of the University of Florence.

Contenuto: Welcome from Prof. Romano Del Nord, TESIS Center Director; Volume Presentation; Meyer Children's Hospital; Experimenting Innovation with Healthcare Architecture. The Meyer Children's Hospital in Florence Romano Del Nord; Energy Saving Strategies in Five European Hospital Buildings Marco Sala, Giuseppina Alcamo; New Architecture for Children's Hospitals; Environmental Psychology and Architecture for Health Care Design Mirilia Bonnes, Marino Bonaiuto, Ferdinando Fornara, Elena Bilotta; Also Walls Speak...Giuliana Filippazzi; Children Hospitals' Explorers (CHEX). 10 Issues and Innovations for Children's Hospital Planning and Design Derek Parker, Catherine Zeliotis and Ileana Alexandratos; Design Evolution of the Childhood Care and Assistance trough the Twentieth Century in Europe Chiara Tonelli; Design Quality Standards; Psychosocially Supportive Design: A Salutogenic Approach to the Design of the Hospital Environment Alan Dilani; Designing for Children in Natural and Urban Habitats Neil Cadenhead; Designing Sustainable Healthcare Facilities Phil Nedin; New Children's Hospitals - Identity and Integration Jane McElroy; Designing the Perfect Children's Hospital Richard Mazuch; Index TESIS InterUniversity Research Center - Systems and Technologies in Healthcare Buildings; Proceedings of 28th International Public Health Seminar edited by Romano Del Nord; Hospital Architecture: Reading the Past, Forecasting the Future; Lessons in Humanising Future Health Care Architecture Peter Scher; Multiplicity of Forms in Healthcare Sites Alessandro Caviglia, Margherita Bianco; Hospital Architecture: State of the Art Design; The Evolution of the "Architecture for Health" Program at Texas A&M University since - 1966 George J. Mann; Physio Therapy from Innovation to Humanisation "From the Treatment of Patients to Wellness" Hans Eggen; An Integrated Project Delivery Process: Providing Innovation, Sustainability, and Humanization for the Last Independent Hospital in San Francisco Philip Patrick Sun; Culture Aspect in Hospital Design Zakia Shafie; Turku University Central Hospital T-Hospital, New Acute Care Hospital in Turku, Finland Mikael Paatela; The Integrated Interventional Platform: Designing Procedural Space for Next Generation Practice, Culture and Operations Bill Rostemberg; The Unzipped Hospital Downscaling the Hospital from Mega Structure to Urban Tissue Bas Molenaar University Hospitals: Innovation in Organisational Models for Integrating Healthcare, Research and Teaching Anna Maria Giovenale; Environmental Stress Prevention in Intensive Care Units Daniela Sorana; The Art of Making Well Being in Healthcare Architecture Maria Antonietta Rubino; Healthcare Architecture: New Visions; Functional Layout for a New Hospital Organization Capolongo Stefano, Fabrizio Schiaffonati, Andrea Tartaglia; Architecture Out of Tune: The Hospital as Instrument Tonyanna C. Borkovi; "Recent Developments in Health-Facility Planning and Design in Australia" Warren Kerr; TESIS InterUniversity Research Center - Systems and Technologies in Healthcare Buildings Healthcare Networks: Researches; Re-organisation Activity of Milan Hospital Network for the Requalification of Sanitary assistance. Proposal of a Analysis and Evaluation Model of Present and Future Features of Public Hospital Buildings in Milan Elena Mussinelli; The Strategic Plan for the Wide Area of Novara and the New City Hospital System Andrea Tartaglia, Matteo Gambero; The Republic of Azerbaijan Health Sector Reform Project M. Turhan Kayasu; The Health and Community Care Centre in the Territorial Health System Francesca Giofrè; Focus on: Humanization of Hospital Environment Environment and Humanization, Condition of the Spaces, looking for the Satisfactors of the Health Facilities Astrid Maria Debuchy; In Quest for Malaysian Healthcare Space Standards: Are We Any Different? Labour Delivery Rooms as Bases for Comparative Study Norwina Mohd Nawawi; Posters in Hospital Environment: Pilot Research in the Experimental SGH Ward Ruzica Bozovic-Stamenovic; Communication without Words Karin Imoberdorf ; Focus on: Innovations; The Philippine Response to the Compaign for Disaster Reduction Prosperidad C. Luis; Operation Theatres with Inbuilt MRI or CT Devices - Latest Developments and Projects. An Example for the Close Cooperation of Architects and Equipment Developing Companies. Recent State-of-the-art Projects in Germany, Singapore and Saudi Arabia Henning Lensch; Hospices: Places, Spaces and Architecture Tiziana Ferrante; Building Differentiation of Hospital Layer Approach Sjoerd de Hoogh; Focus on: Sustainability; Sustainable approach for healthcare facility in China Huang Xi qiu; An Innovative and Sustainable Hospital Design R.H. Gortemaker; Building Futures on Health Care Buildings Luis Enrique López Cardiel; A Methodological Framework for the Settlement of the New Hospital of Regione Valle d'Aosta Stefano Capolongo, Maddalena Buffoli, Alessandra Oppio