From army barracks to shopping malls: how hospital design has been a matter of life and death
- Written by Julie Willis, Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning, University of Melbourne
The grand facade of Sydney's Rum Hospital did little to improve patients' accommodation.Charles Pickering/State Library of NSW, Author providedWelcome to the first article of our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. Today, we look at changes in hospital design since...



