The Covert life of hospital architecture

Addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions.Opening with a description of hospital architecture, the sequence of chapters takes an unusually comprehensive view that pairs spaces and occupants in hospitals: the patient room, care teams and on-ward support for their work and the intelligibility of public circulation spaces for visitors. The final chapter moves outside the hospital to describe the current healthcare crisis of the global pandemic as it reveals how healthcare institutions must evolve to be adaptable in entirely new ways.