Maggie’s Centres: On the Road is a compact architecture guide exploring the design and cultural significance of Maggie’s cancer care centres across the UK.
For the first time, many of the most important Maggie’s Centres across the UK are presented through detailed architectural itineraries, highlighting their importance as pioneering examples of healthcare architecture.
This guide traces the history of Maggie's cancer treatment centres and takes visitors to see how they have grown up in Britain and elsewhere to become a new type of institution; a paradigm for architecture.
Founded by Maggie Keswick Jencks and Charles Jencks, both landscape designers and architects, each Maggie's Centre is a successful example of "a hybrid of four buildings: it's a non-hospital institute, it's a kind of non-home house, a non-confessional religious refuge and a non-museum art gallery.
Product details
- Design detail: The jacket opens out into a map marking the location of each centre
- Format: Paperback
- Size: 11.5 cm x 1.02 cm x 16 cm
- Page count: 152
- ISBN-13: 978-8855210034
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