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Bridging the Gap Between Architecture and Healthcare with Dr. Andrew Ibrahim and the University of Michigan's Health and Design Fellowship

2020-04-02T10:00:00-04:00

Fellowships offer individuals the opportunity to dive into specialized areas of practice where topics and ideas can be explored and fostered within the context of the university setting. Like most architectural fellowships, many fellowships engage in work that oscillates between teaching, theory, pedagogical questioning, research, and design prototyping. However the University of Michigan offers a unique fellowship opportunity that submerses a fellow into medicine and healthcare design.

Through a partnership between the University of Michigan's Department of Surgery and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, a Health and Design Fellowship works to encourage, as program director Andrew M. Ibrahim MD, MSc. explains, a "merging of networks [...] to create an opportunity for individuals to have a foot in both doors - architecture and healthcare." Architecture and planning haven't done a good job interfacing with healthcare and healthcare policy. However, alongside our t...

The Staging of Healthy Living: a Review of Beatriz Colomina's X-Ray Architecture

2019-04-12T12:01:00-04:00

In her newest book, X-Ray Architecture, the theorist Beatriz Colomina bypasses the clichéd analogies made between buildings and the human body to develop a persuasive and wholly original take on the origins of modern architecture. Recently released by Lars Müller Publishers, X-Ray Architecture elaborates on the author’s argument that modern architecture was both a tool and metaphor for the treatment of human illnesses just like any other - a theory Colomina has been mulling over since she first arrived in New York as a scholar in 1980.

Screen/Print #36: Harvard Design Magazine's "Well, Well, Well"

2015-08-14T10:32:00-04:00

“Well, Well, Well”, the fortieth issue from the Harvard Design Magazine, explores the tricky business of designing for health, and provokes considerations on the flip-side of neglecting to do so.