The Architecture of Health, a MASS publication authored by Michael P. Murphy, Jr. and Jeffrey Mansfield, posits that a historical analysis of hospitals is essential to understanding their architectural function in the present. Pamela Horn, the director of cross-platform publishing at Cooper Hewitt writes, this book “charts historical epidemics alongside modern and contemporary architectural transformations in service of medicine, health, and habitation; it explores how infrastructure facilitates healing and architecture’s greater role in constructing our social order.”

Author: Jeffrey Mansfield, Michael P. Murphy

Publisher: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

ISBN: 9781942303312