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Exploring best practices in trauma-informed care

2019-05-13T11:44:00-04:00

Barros recalls talking over dinner at the old shelter about what was needed at the new facility. Now that it has opened, she said, she can see that she and her peers were heard and their suggestions taken up enthusiastically.

Wide hallways inside the Sanderson Apartments, Mar Lee, April 22, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Donna Bryson introduces readers to trauma-informed design, through two recent examples; one designed by Denver-based Davis Partnership Architects and the other by Shopworks Architecture.

"Architecture is a field of repression": Daniel Libeskind on childhood memories, trauma, and architecture

2015-11-19T17:05:00-05:00

"You repress almost everything to produce a building," states Daniel Libeskind during a long and wide-ranging conversation with the architectural historian Gillian Darley in the context of the exhibition Childhood ReCollections: Memory in Design at the Roca London Gallery.

"Everything is repressed because it has to fit into the context, it has to be stylized, it has to appeal to clients, it has to be normal," he contends. "But I always thought, try to show what has been repressed in architecture. It’s very difficult because people don’t like it."

Their conversation touches on a number of Libeskind's central concerns and makes frequent reference to both his biography and his oeuvre. Here are some of the highlights (check out the full video below):

On his childhood:

"I was lucky to have that experience of... the mythology of New York, which is arriving by boat as an immigrant. You know, woken up, 4 o’clock in the morning by my mother with my sister, go up, wake up, 'you’re going to see Ne...

Can better design save lives in hospital trauma centers?

2014-07-25T14:40:00-04:00

Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles partnered with the Department of Defense to build out the OR360, a new innovation center where doctors and military personnel can simulate hypothetical scenarios in order to simplify and streamline trauma care. [...] Designed by CannonDesign, the nearly 10,000-square-foot space is the hospital’s answer to the big question of: How can you make trauma care, both in hospitals and in military situations, faster and more effective?