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Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative care
Routledge, May 2009Modern Hospice Design examines different building types which serve the needs of the sick and the dying, from monasteries, alms-houses, and grim geriatric wards, to beautifully-crafted communal homes set in wildflower meadows.
It deals with every aspect of the design process, from finding a site to choosing an architect, and from developing detailed floor plans, to creating a plan for the garden. It is based on case studies from across Europe, and includes floor plans and other specific design details.
The book is illustrated with colour photographs.Buy it here:Modern Hospice Design is thought-provoking...
Ken Worpole traces a path out of the darkness and into the light: from the Victorian asylum or sanatorium, devised to punish the sick, to the hospice movement and its assertion that even those who can't be made well by clinical medicine are entitled to be treated by the medical profession with not just dignity but something like love.
Buy Modern Hospice Design: the architecture of palliative care at www.routledge.com
Dockers and Detectives
Five Leaves Press, 2009Dockers and Detectives has now been enlarged and re-published.
This pioneering study of twentieth-century working class reading and writing in Britain revived a number of literary reputations, such as those of Alexander Baron and James Hanley, as well as distinguishing distinct regional cultures and narrative styles still existing in Britain.
Buy it here:He succeeds in making the reader want to rush out and read the books he is discussing because he tells a story well, and that in itself is still rare in books about literature.
Buy Dockers and Detectives at www.inpressbooks.co.uk
350 Miles: An Essex Journey
with photographer, Jason OrtonEssex County Council, 2005
This handsomely designed – and much acclaimed - book explores the landscape and history of the Essex coast, rivers and estuaries.
Buy it here:The authors have uncovered in words and images a haunted littoral of piers and power plants, mudflats and louring skies… Essex has never looked so mystical.
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Last Landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the West
Reaktion Books, 2003A wide-ranging book containing more than a hundred and forty photographs by Larraine Worpole explores the way death transforms ideas about landscape and architecture, historically and in present-day Western society and culture.
Detailed accounts are given of Viking burial islands in central Sweden, Etruscan tombs and early Christian catacombs in Italy, the 17th century Portuguese-Jewish cemetery 'Beth Haim' at Ouderkerk in the Netherlands, and famous 19th century 'cities of the dead'
such as Bologna's La Certosa, Highgate in London and Père-Lachaise in Paris.
Furthermore, this book explores the achievements of the great cemeteries of the modern era, such as the exquisite Stockholm Woodland Cemetery by Asplund and Lewerentz, and Aldo Rossi's rationalist city of the dead at San Cataldo, in northern Italy.
Buy it here:One of the most thought-provoking books of the year.
Buy Last Landscapes: the architecture of the cemetery in the West at www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Here Comes the Sun: architecture and public space in 20th century European culture
Reaktion Books, 2000This first collaboration with photographer Larraine Worpole, examined how European architects, planners and social reformers tried to remake the city in the early 20th century in the image of a sunlit, ordered utopia.
It concentrates on a whole new repertoire of building types including open-air museums, libraries, health centres, promenades, linear and sports parks, promenades and lidos.
Buy it here:This beautifully produced book makes a host of thought-provoking links between private faces and public places.
It will surely make you see familiar and forgotten architectural landmarks in a new light.
Buy Here Comes the Sun: architecture and public space in 20th century European culture at www.reaktionbooks.co.uk