description: Explores the role of hospital architects in the construction of the massive new health estate in Victorian and Edwardian England, emphasizing the debates that took place within the profession and provided the intellectual setting for the design process. Pivoting on the distinctive and enduring pavilion plan design, covers competence and creativity, acquiring expertise, testing out ideas through competition, upgrading older hospitals, exploring the concept of circular wards, and innovation and controversy. Examines a wide range of completed buildings and design proposals to show that the pavilion type had undergone such substantial evolution by the early 20th century as to constitute a second generation. Rather lightly illustrated for an architecture book. Distributed by Cassell. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
language: English
title: The Architect and the Pavilion Hospital: Dialogue and Design Creativity in England 1850-1914
titlecomplete: The Architect and the Pavilion Hospital: Dialogue and Design Creativity in England 1850-1914
publisher: UNKNO