Symposium: Building Health: Architectures of the Medical Complex

Participants will explore a diverse set of case studies related to architecture and medicine, spanning from the turn of the twentieth-century to the present. Topics will include ritualistic acts performed around the patient’s bed; the maintenance and organization of hospital and healthcare resources; end-of-life assisted care facilities as exemplars of collective living; and the concepts of flexibility, standardization, modulation, and industrialization in medical design. 
 
Presentations by Piergianna Mazzocca, doctoral candidate, History of Architecture and Urban Development program, Cornell University; Jules Schoonman, digital curator, Academic Heritage, TU Delft Library; Alberto Geuna, design leader and head of research and development, LVNG Design, Turin; Birgitte Hansen, lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft; and James Flaus, MSc student, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. 
 
This afternoon symposium is the first in a series of public events organized for the fall 2024 semester as part of The Medical Complex, a collective architecture project examining the spatial implications of twenty-first century prevention, diagnosis, treatment, wellbeing, fitness, research, and care through the collective design of a healthcare.