Designing Doctors
Dr. Annmarie Adams will give a talk on her exhibit Designing Doctors, which highlights the contributions of physicians to hospital architecture. Â
Designing Doctors showcases the Osler Library’s outstanding collection of architectural advice literature on hospital architecture.Ìý Its focus is on the development of the so-called pavilion-plan hospital, a ubiquitous typology for hospitals in the English-speaking world in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which maximized ventilation and daylight; their signature detail, however, was the Nightingale ward, a large, open space which typically housed about thirty patients.
Dr. Annmarie Adams is Director and William C. Macdonald Professor at the School of Architecture, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, Montreal. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ-Queens University Press, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (University of Toronto Press, 2000).  More information about this exhibit is on our .Ìý