Trends in hospital planning: tools for the next decade

This article observes that the team of specialized professional disciplines needed to deal with the technical complexity in health care architecture has become fragmented. This has lead to an aesthetically boring and uninspiring architecture. The author's "dynamic" approach to the facility development process suggests a reintegration of disciplines as a first measure for improvement. As a second consideration he discusses technological advances in the state-of-the-art of pre-architecture (planning, programming) and design which could allow architects to more adequately address aesthetic and environmental needs of patients and workers in health care facilities.