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Hospitals: A Design Manual discusses the principles, concepts, and approaches involved in designing modern hospitals, emphasizing the relationship between architecture, healthcare needs, patient comfort, and the operational efficiency of healthcare facilities.

The book explains how changing community needs and developments in healthcare systems influence the form, function, and design of hospital buildings. It addresses patient-centered healthcare paradigms, hospitals as public service facilities, hospital business and economic considerations, and evolving healthcare requirements.

Furthermore, the book explores various approaches to hospital planning and design, including the distribution of healthcare facilities, centralization and decentralization of services, hospital networks, patient care pathways, and the relationship between healthcare processes and architectural spaces.

Other important topics include evidence-based design for healing environments, hospital building typologies, clinical spaces, circulation systems, orientation and wayfinding systems, and international examples of hospital architecture projects.

Through architectural illustrations, photographs, design concepts, and international case studies, this book provides valuable references for designing hospitals that are functional, safe, comfortable, efficient, and adaptable to the evolving needs of healthcare services.

This book is particularly relevant to architecture students, hospital administration students, healthcare facility managers, hospital planners, healthcare professionals, architects, and researchers in healthcare management and facility design.