AIA Design for Health Session  |  Tuesday, May 3, 2022 (6-7 pm EST) Credits: 1.0 LU / 1.0 HSW AIA Design for Health invited Erin Sharp-Newton to present on the Architecture of Mental Health for the AIA Center for Architecture in NYC.  As a fellow advocate for mental health, she invited... View full entry

The Architecture of Mental health Video

Lobby Banner (Source: NK Architects + DCC Design Group)Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH) Somerset is transforming their nationally recognized Eating Disorders Program into a state-of-the-art inpatient unit. EDU Welcome (Source: NK Architects) - Phase 1 Open When complete, the newly... View full entry

Phase 1 of The Retreat & Recovery at Ramapo Valley for Hackensack Meridian Health | Carrier Clinicopened in New Jersey, after being built and constructed during the height of the pandemic. The design is a state-of-the art treatment center in Mahwah set within a serene, historic landscape in... View full entry

“Designing a Healing Mental Health Campus to create an Accessible Continuum of Compassionate Care” Presented at the European Healthcare Congress in London, UK Historically patients with long term mental illness have been warehoused away from the local population. Driven by stigma, lack of... View full entry

Source: The works of Jeremy Bentham vol. IV, 172-3, 1843 (originally 1791); Referenced also by Hunt-SineBEHAVIORAL HEALTH - STRATEGIC FACILITY DESIGN INNOVATIONS THAT IMPROVE TREATMENT OUTCOMES, SAFETY AND THE BOTTOM LINE  Following is an excerpt from a synopsis written for the Center for Health... View full entry

Invisible Wounds

La Biennale di Venezia (PREVIEW TO AUGUST ARTICLE)Soon we will be visiting the 2018 Biennale Architecttura 2018 in Venice....  soon we will be wandering through the garden of international pavilions at the Arsenale, where architects, designers, thinkers, and creators from all around the... View full entry

TEDXpordenone Aldo Cibic - Rethinking Happiness

SETTING THE FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTHSUN Behavioral Health, in partnership with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, opens its newly constructed doors to the community of Northern Kentucky.   On President’s Day,February 19, 2018, SUN and St. Elizabeth’s will have a Ribbon Cutting & Dedication... View full entry

A Land-of-the-Lost in NJ My husband was telling me about his human discovery yesterday... While enduring freezing cold on railroad tracks, where he was surveying for a client of his that owns the railway, the words “Kean Sees All” stopped him on those tracks. This part of the railroad is... View full entry

URBAN DESIGN FOR COMMUNITY WELLBEING REDESIGNING TOKYO ____________________________________ TOKYO, August 1, 2017 @urbandesignmh      #udmhtokyo “By 2050 two thirds of the global population will live in cities. Urban health and wellbeing is increasingly becoming part of the remit of urban... View full entry

NK Architects' 2nd Annual Knowledge and Networking Event for Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center was held May 16, 2017 at the Park Avenue Club in Florham Park, NJ. Ben Lee, AIA, CFO and Managing Director, Healthcare Practice, NK Architects, and President of the American Institute of... View full entry