The Architecture of Hope: Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres

by Charles Jencks (Editor), Edwin Heathcote (Editor)

Since the mid-1990s, an exciting building project has been new cancer care centers that offer a new approach to architecture and health. Named after Maggie Keswick and cofounded with her husband, the writer and landscape designer Charles Jencks, these centers aim to be at all the major British hospitals that treat cancer. The Architecture of Hope showcases these structures where, under one roof, patients can access help with information, benefits, psychological support, and stress-reducing strategies. The book offers a history of the centers, as well as profiles of individual centers throughout the U.K. The Architecture of Hope is a testament to these places of hope and healing, available to anybody, whether or not they are afflicted with this terrible disease.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published March 23, 2010

About the author

Charles Alexander Jencks (born 21 June 1939) is an American architecture theorist and critic, landscape architect and designer. His books on the history and criticism of modernism and postmodernism are widely read in architectural circles. He studied under the influential architectural historians Sigfried Giedion and Reyner Banham. Jencks now lives in Scotland where he designs landscape sculpture.

Reviews

[Tom Kamei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fascinating series of essays and architectual experiments on the effect of the built environment and the act of healing.

[Diala Nabhan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anyone interested in Health and Architecture should read this book.
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