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Author: Michael P. Murphy Jr. ,
Jeffrey Mansfield ,
MASS Design Group
Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Imprint: Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9781942303312
ISBN 10: 1942303319
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 November 2021
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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"Reading architecture through the history of hospitals offers a tool for unlocking the elemental principles of architecture and the intractable laws of human and social conditions that architecture serves in each of our lives.--John Hill ""A Daily Dose of Architecture Books"""
Reading architecture through the history of hospitals offers a tool for unlocking the elemental principles of architecture and the intractable laws of human and social conditions that architecture serves in each of our lives.--John Hill A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
Author Information
Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is the Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collective that leverages buildings, as well as the design and construction process, to become catalysts for economic growth, social change, and justice. Since MASS's beginnings, their portfolio of work has expanded to over a dozen countries and span the areas of healthcare, education, housing, urban development. MASS's work has been published in over 900 publications and awarded globally. Most recently, MASS has been recognized as the winners of the national Arts and Letters Award for 2017 and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Michael's 2016 TED talk has reached over a million views, and was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for Peace and Justice in 2017. Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, educator, and designer. She is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Lupton is founding director of the Graphic Design MFA Program at MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) in Baltimore, where she has authored numerous books on design processes, including Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers (May 2021), Health Design Thinking (2020), Design is Storytelling (2017), Graphic Design: The New Basics (2015), Thinking with Type (2014), and Graphic Design Thinking (2011). Daniel A. Barber is associate professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. He is the author of Modern Architecture and Climate: Design Before Air Conditioning (Princeton University Press, 2020) and A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War (Oxford University Press, 2016).
