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In many New Zealand towns and cities the hospital is one of the largest buildings, with a history of community aspiration behind it. This history of their architecture starts with the tiny hospitals that served the early colony and tracks their evolution through to the high-tech facilities of today, showing how, as medicine developed and communities grew, hospitals have constantly adapted to meet our health needs. Most of the earliest buildings have been demolished and many of their architects forgotten. This book brings them back into the light.

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Chris Thom is an Auckland architect who specialises in health design. He is a Principal at Chow:Hill Architects, where he has worked on hospitals and mental health units across New Zealand, including the Waipapa acute services building at Christchurch Hospital, a collaboration with Warren and Mahoney. Chris has previously worked on health projects at Klein Architects and AECOM, where he was involved in hospitals in Singapore, China and Vietnam. On graduating, he worked with City Design in Auckland, where his projects ranged in scale from the Aramaramara bridge in Mission Bay to the refurbishment of the atmospheric Civic Theatre, a joint venture with Jasmax. Prior to studying architecture, he was a structural engineer at Beca, where one of his first jobs as a graduate was working on the Stephenson & Turner-designed Starship Children’s Hospital.

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