VOLUME CXXXIIDECEMBER 5, 1927NUMBER 2534
THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
FOUNDED 1876
WHAT THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS HAVE TAUGHT US IN HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN
By Edward F. Stevens, F.A.I.A.
In every. branch of industry the pulse has been quickewd by the influence and reaction, directly or indifaly brought about by the war, and this is qifit asitrue in surgery and medicine and in the ttatme4t of the sick, as in arts and crafts. The war taught is little in the planning of civic hospitals, fgut the fa pplication of new methods of treatment dvgloped during and since the war has made obsolete many of the old principles used in the housiggbancj care of the sick, and has given architects designing hospitals entirely new problems to solve. A few years ago many of our hospitals were cold and barren, lacking in color or warmth; forbidden i from without and cheerless from
within. But the past ten to fifteen years show marked changes in plan, equipment and design, as the assimilating of the newer principles of therapeutics, of medicine and surgery has made new problems to solve and new technique to work with.
In some sections of the country hospitals are even setting aside departments for the practice of osteopathy; and mechanical, electrical and “psychological” therapy is largely augmenting medicine and surgery. Nearly every new medical institution is introducing its physio-therapy department, as the necessary adjunct to the up-to-date hospital. The medical schools are recognizing the importance of
THE SPIRIT OF WELCOME PERVADES THIS ENTRANCE HALL, WHICH IS SPACIOUS, DIGNIFIED AND RESTFUL. HERE THE PATIENT IS MET BY THE HOSPITAL HOSTESS AND SHOWN EVERY ATTENTION
PROVIDENCE LYING-IN HOSPITAL, PROVIDENCE, R. I.—-STEVENS K LEE, ARCHITECTS (Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)
THE
AMERICAN ARCHITECT
FOUNDED 1876
WHAT THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS HAVE TAUGHT US IN HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN
By Edward F. Stevens, F.A.I.A.
In every. branch of industry the pulse has been quickewd by the influence and reaction, directly or indifaly brought about by the war, and this is qifit asitrue in surgery and medicine and in the ttatme4t of the sick, as in arts and crafts. The war taught is little in the planning of civic hospitals, fgut the fa pplication of new methods of treatment dvgloped during and since the war has made obsolete many of the old principles used in the housiggbancj care of the sick, and has given architects designing hospitals entirely new problems to solve. A few years ago many of our hospitals were cold and barren, lacking in color or warmth; forbidden i from without and cheerless from
within. But the past ten to fifteen years show marked changes in plan, equipment and design, as the assimilating of the newer principles of therapeutics, of medicine and surgery has made new problems to solve and new technique to work with.
In some sections of the country hospitals are even setting aside departments for the practice of osteopathy; and mechanical, electrical and “psychological” therapy is largely augmenting medicine and surgery. Nearly every new medical institution is introducing its physio-therapy department, as the necessary adjunct to the up-to-date hospital. The medical schools are recognizing the importance of
THE SPIRIT OF WELCOME PERVADES THIS ENTRANCE HALL, WHICH IS SPACIOUS, DIGNIFIED AND RESTFUL. HERE THE PATIENT IS MET BY THE HOSPITAL HOSTESS AND SHOWN EVERY ATTENTION
PROVIDENCE LYING-IN HOSPITAL, PROVIDENCE, R. I.—-STEVENS K LEE, ARCHITECTS (Copyright, 1927, The Architectural & Building Press, Inc.)