THREE-DAY INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

13–14–15 April 2005

University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands

THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

• Charles Jencks, USA • Marie-Andrée Fournier, Australia
• Prof. Stephen Verderber, USA • Prof. Robbert Huijsman, the Netherlands
• Prof. Mardelle Shepley, USA • Prof. Abram de Swaan, the Netherlands
• Prof. Roger Ulrich, USA • Aaron Betsky, the Netherlands

• Mels Crouwel, the Netherlands

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS

• How do hospitals contribute to the well being and recovery
of patients?

• Contemporary patients as discerning consumers and their

influence on hospital buildings.

‘The Architecture of • The hospital of the future: a product of expanding More than 100 speakers
Hospitals’ is a unique bureaucracy or a pleasant, healing living environment? from Europe, the USA,
meeting place for Canada and Australia will
practising professionals, discuss the latest state
• How are the experiences of management, physicians, staff
scientists, architects, of affairs in the area of
designers, technical
and patients incorporated in the design of care institutions? hospital architecture
specialists, and the construction
management and • The importance of modern technologies and ICT for medical and renovation of care
physicians from around treatment and a healthy interior climate. institutions.
the world.

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN YOU CAN PUT TOGETHER

The UMCG is among the most modern hospitals in Europe. The single most
YOUR OWN PERSONAL
PROGRAMME
important concern is the well being of patients, professionals and visitors. Besides keynote speeches,
The building is neither bleak nor impersonal; it provides a living and you may choose programme
components from five main
working environment that include polyclinics designed by various interior
themes: Culture, Healthcare
decorators. It forms a pleasant, transparent unit in which the part open to concepts, Evidence-based
the public comprises shops, services and catering establishments. You are design, Engineering and ICT,
and Country presentations.
welcome to visit and learn more about this unique care institution.

Interested parties may of

For more information about the programme and speakers:
course also attend a single
www.thearchitectureofhospitals.org day of the conference.
 Programme Wednesday April 13
12.00 WELCOME AND REGISTRATION Mels Crouwel
Chief Architect of the Dutch Government
12.30 OPENING
Mels Crouwel (u.r.)
13.50 HOSPITALS, HEALTHCARE AND THE STATE
Abram de Swaan
14.30 ARCHITECTURE FOR HEALTH - 2050: REINVENTING THE HOSPITAL Abram de Swaan
Stephen Verderber, architect
Professor Social Science, University of
• How does the institutionalised character of hospital architecture effect its functioning?
Amsterdam, co-founder and chairman of the
• What does it mean in terms of architectural design?
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research,
• What are the possibilities to shake off this institutional aura?
The Netherlands
15.10 THE RENZO PIANO HOSPITAL MODEL
15.50 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
16.20 HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE: THE ART OF HEALING Stephen Verderber
Kirk Hamilton Professor in the School of Architecture,
• Several outstanding hospitals have been designed in the USA that do justice to both Adjunct Professor in the Department of
the philosophy of the healing environment and to modern architecture. Health Systems Management, School of Public
• These hospitals combine the best of architecture with the most recent findings on the Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University,
way architecture impacts people. New Orleans, USA
16.55 ARCHITECTURE THAT MATTERS Kirk Hamilton
Aaron Betsky, architect
Fellow of the Center for Health Systems & Design
• The position of healthcare architecture relative to the main issues now discussed in
and Associate Professor, Texas A&M University,
the world of architecture
Founder of Watkins Hamilton Ross Architects,
17.30 PANEL Houston and Dallas, Texas, USA
18.00 DRINKS
Aaron Betsky
Architecture and Design critic and Director
of the Netherlands Architecture Institute,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Architecture of Hospitals

Hospitals are special buildings. They stand out through their scale,
through the large numbers of people treated and nursed, through
the many staff and through the coming and going of visitors.
Hospital locations vary considerably: sometimes on the outskirts
of a city, sometimes in the city centre itself. Some (particularly
academic) hospitals are so large that they resemble complete
villages with shops, services, information centres and catering
establishments.

In hospitals patients encounter professional treatment. From the

time they are admitted, they become part of a complex logistical
process. Patients consume this service just as modern consumers
do, discerningly and self-consciously. This attitude places high
demands on a modern care institution, providing an enormous
challenge for management and staff. This becomes particularly
clear with the construction and renovation of (new) hospitals and
care institutions.

In collaboration with a highly qualified team of designers and

advisers, an optimal environment can be created for patients,
physicians, nursing staff and visitors. The care centre of the future
takes shape within the strict rules designed to guarantee health
and safety and within rigid budgetary parameters.

The expertise concerning construction and renovation of care

institutions has expanded dramatically over the last 20 years.
Scientists have made impressive advances, both on psychosocial
and technical planes. Combined with the practical experiences of
management, physicians, nursing staff and patients, a solid basis
has been laid for architects and the construction industry together
to make giant strides forward.

During the international conference, ‘The Architecture of

Hospitals’, national and international scientists, architects,
hospital administrators and technical specialists will present their
latest research findings and practical experiences.

In short: a festival of expertise with more than 100 speakers from

around the world and a unique opportunity to renew old contacts
and make new ones with the world’s leading experts in the area of
new building and renovation of care centres.
 Programme Thursday April 14
09.00 EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN Roger Ulrich Roger Ulrich
• A branch of environmental psychology, EBD considers healthcare architecture as one Professor, Faculty Fellow, Center for Health
of its most promising fields of research. Systems and Design, Texas A&M University, USA
• What is EBD? What are its most striking findings?
09.30 EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN & EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE NN
• EBD derives its methods mostly from environmental psychology and focuses primarily
on methods of measuring the way people react to their physical environment.
Mardelle Shepley
• EBD concentrates on the environments that have been designed by either architects,
Associate Professor of Architecture and Associate
interior architects or landscape architects.
Director of the Center for Health Systems and
10.00 EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE Mardelle Shepley Design, Texas A&M University, USA
• How does EBD relate to the world of architecture?
• EBD is located somewhere at the crossroads between evidence (science) and design.
• EBD provides architects with methods to define architectural programs using the
knowledge invested in the hospital organization that needs a new building. Jain Malkin
President of Jain Malkin Inc. San Diego, California,
10.30 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
USA, Instructor at Harvard University Graduate
11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS (A–1, B–1, C–1, D–1, E–1) School of Design and author of several books on
health care design
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS (A–2, B–2, C–2, D–2, E–2)
Geert Driesen
15.00 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
Director awg architecten, Partner bOb Van Reeth,
15.30 THE INNER WORLD OF HOSPITALS Jain Malkin, interior architect Antwerp and senior lecturer architectural design,
• State of the art of hospital interior design. Henry van de Velde-instituut, Antwerp, Belgium
• The way a hospital presents itself to patients, staff and visitors is very determined by
interior design.
16.10 THE OUTER WORLD OF HOSPITALS Geert Driesen, architect
• During the last decades it has become feasible again to integrate the hospital in society.
• Hospitals as key elements in the plans of townplanners.
16.40 PANEL
17.00 DRINKS
17.30 SPECIAL EVENT
19.00 DINNER

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 MORNING

A–1 B–1 C–1 D–1 E–1
CULTURE: HEALTHCARE CONCEPTS: EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN: ENGINEERING & ICT: COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS:
France USA and Norway Gardens in Hospitals Indoor Air Quality in Hospitals The Netherlands

The present patrimonium
of Assistance Publique -
Hôpitaux de Paris
Gérard Lemmonier
Director, Assistance Publique des
Hôpitaux de Paris, France
Didier Vallens
Ingénieur hospitalier, Assistance
Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris,
France
Luub Wessels, architect BNA,
UIA, chair
Netherlands Board for Hospital
Facilities, The Netherlands
Centers of Excellence:
Perspectives from Practice,
Teaching and Research
Ronald L. Skaggs
FAIA, FACHA, Chairman HKS Inc.
Dallas, Texas, USA
George Mann
Professor Health Facilities and
Design, Texas A&M University
The Evaluation of Hospital
Concepts in Norway
Knut H. Bergsland
Senior Advisor, Architect of
SINTEF Unimed, Norway
Roger Ulrich, chair
Professor, Faculty Fellow, Center
for Health Systems and Design,
Texas A&M University, USA
A Post-occupancy Evaluation
of three Pediatric Healing
Gardens
Sandra Sherman
SDCU/UCSD Joint Doctoral
Program Clinical Psychology
Healing Gardens in Hospitals
Clare Cooper Marcus
Professor Emerita, University of
California, Berkeley, USA and
co-author/editor of Healing
Gardens, People Places and
Housing as if People Mattered
Peter Luscuere, chair
Director of Van Heugten,
hospital engineers, Nijmegen,
The Netherlands and Professor
Building Technology at the
Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Lessons from Sars
Steven Ooi Peng Lim
Adjunct Associate Professor &
Deputy Director Disease Control,
Ministry of Health, Singapore
Marco Maroni
Head of the Division of
Occupational Medicine at the
L. Sacco Hospital of the
University of Milano, Italy
Robbert Huijsman, chair
Professor Care management,
Institute of Health Policy and
Management, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
History and Trends in
Architecture of Dutch hospitals
Robbert Huijsman
Dutch hospitals: Various
Mainstreams at Work
Architects: Hans Beekhoven,
Arnold Burger, Henk de Jong,
Jarno Nelissen, Han Westelaken
Patients’ perspective on
Dutch hospitals: Assessment
Instrument and Results
Eesge Botma and Ed Hoekstra

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 AFTERNOON

A–2 B–2 C–2 D–2 E–2
CULTURE: HEALTHCARE CONCEPTS: EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN: ENGINEERING & ICT: COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS:
France The Netherlands and the UK Improving Patients Safety Operation Theatres USA and Canada

Architectural Policy: new
developments in Hospital
Architecture
Cristina Haye, architect
Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux
de Paris, France
Bruno Gaudin, architect
Luub Wessels, chair
Healthcare with a human
Approach: The National
University Hospital in Oslo
Arvid Ottar, Architect MNAL
Medplan AS Arkitekter, Norway
Care Models and Hospital
Design in the Netherlands
Paul Boluijt, architect BNA
Netherlands Board for Hospital
Facilities, The Netherlands
Concepts Enabling Innovative
Care-Models
Kenneth Schwarz, architect AIA
Director Anshen Dyer Architects,
London, UK
Research for Increasing
Patient Safety
Craig Zimring
Professor at the Department of
Architecture, Georgia Institute of
Technology, Atlanta USA
Effect of Single versus
Two-bed Rooms on Hospital
Acquired Infection Rates
Richard van Enk
Director of Epidemology at the
Bronson Methodist Hospital,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Peter Luscuere, chair
Infection prevention and air
quality in the OP: fact or myth?
Geert Walenkamp
Orthopedic surgeon at the
University Hospital of Maastricht,
The Netherlands
Arnold Brunner
Director of Brunner Haustechnik
AG, Engineering, Wallisellen-
Zürich, Switzerland
Interdisciplinary Design-based
Research for a Patient Room
Thomas Garvey
Associate Professor Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada
Stephen Verderber, chair
Client Participation and Human
Factors
James Diaz, architect
Director of Healthcare at KMD,
San Francisco, USA
Healing Environments
Traci Teraoka
Designer of Maitri - Residential
living for people with Aids,
San Francisco, USA
Hospital Design as Urban Design
David J. Allison
Director of Graduate Studies in
Architecture + Health at Clemson
University, South Carolina, USA
 Programme Friday April 15
09.00 THE MAGGIE PROJECT Charles Jencks, architect; Aaron Betsky, architect Charles Jencks
In the late 1990’s, Charles Jencks started The Maggie Project, which aims at Architectural Historian and author, known
channelling the imagination and expertise of some of the world’s leading architects for his books questioning Modern architecture
towards the design of a number of cancer hospitals, usually erected in the vicinity of and defining Late, Neo and Post-Modern
general hospitals. architecture, USA
Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, among others, have worked on The Maggie Project. In the
field of hospital architecture, The Maggie Project is completely unique.
Aaron Betsky
10.30 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
Architecture and Design critic and Director
11.00 PARALLEL SESSIONS (A–3, B–3, C–3, D–3, E–3) of the Netherlands Architecture Institute,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
12.30 LUNCH
13.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS (A–4, B–4, C–4, D–4, E–4)
15.00 COFFEE AND TEA BREAK
Bas Molenaar
15.30 A PROGRAM FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF HOSPITAL ARCHITECTURE Director of EGM Architects, The Netherlands
Bas Molenaar, architect and Professor of Hospital Architecture, Technical
• Re-conceptualise the hospital as a major work of architecture in the same league as University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
other important public buildings.
• Can a hospital be a work of art?
16.00 PRESENTATION THIRD PRELIMINARY
The Design of the Interior of Hospitals
17.00 DRINKS AND END OF THE CONFERENCE

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 MORNING

A–3
CULTURE
Obsolescence: History,
Diagnosis, Remedy
Daniel Abramson
Associate Professor of Art History
and Director of Architectural
Studies at Tufts University,
Medford, Massachusetts, USA
Beyond the Hospital: The
Clubhouse Architectural Model
for Psychiatric Patients
Carla Yanni
Associate Professor of Art History
at Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, USA
Rest Homes and Sanatoria in
20th century Russia
Danilo Udovicki-Selb
Architectural Historian and
Associate Professor, University
of Texas, Austin, USA
B–3
HEALTHCARE CONCEPTS:
Asset Strategy in a European
Perspective
Marinus Verweij, chair
Director, Netherlands Board for
Hospital Facilities and Chairman
European Health Property
Network, The Netherlands
Future Asset Strategy:
Care Pathways play a central
role in linking Service to Asset
Marinus Verweij
Reshaping the Asset Portfolio
in Practice:
shifting the Emphasis from
hospital based Healthcare to
primary and community Care
Services and Facilities
John Cole
Estate Policy Director, Northern
Ireland
C–3
EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN
Kirk Hamilton, chair
Social spaces in the Vidar
Cliniken in Sweden and their
Role in the Healing Process
Sussane Siepl-Coates
Lecturer at the Architecture
Faculty, Kansas State University,
USA
Creating an Artificial
Impression of a Realistic
Healthcare Setting. How
Designers might avoid
Institutional and Predictable
Designs
Ivo Cristante
Former production designer for
the Warner Brothers television
show ER, USA
D–3
ENGINEERING & ICT:
The Hospital of the Future,
the Orbis Medical Park,
The Netherlands
Erik Veldhoen, chair
Director of Veldhoen and
Company, The Netherlands
The New Medical Park
Ludo Jansen
Member of the Board of the Orbis
Medical Park, The Netherlands
The Healinghouse of the
Future
Erik Veldhoen
The Design of Orbis Medical
Park
Jan van der Leij, architect
Director of Bonnema Architecten,
The Netherlands
E–3
COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS:
Germany
Peter Korneli, chair
The Architecture of Hospitals
in Germany - especially in
East-Germany - in the second
half of the 20th century
Peter Korneli
Independent Architect - Hospital
Consultant, Germany
The Hospital in Germany:
Challenges and Efforts for
Improvement in the Future
Robert Wischer, architect
Co-founder of Heinle, Wischer
und Partner Freie Architekten,
Germany
Rainer Wedekind
Saxon Ministry of Welfare and
Social Affairs, Germany

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 AFTERNOON

A–4
CULTURE
Aaron Betsky, chair
Architecture and Design critic
and Director of the Netherlands
Institute of Architecture,
Rotterdam
Don Murphy, architect
VMX Architects, The Netherlands
B–4
HEALTHCARE CONCEPTS
Marinus Verweij, chair
European Design Portfolio:
how will the Design of Health
Assets change in the light
of Changes in Healthcare
Delivery?
Susan Francis, architect
Researcher, NHS confederation,
UK
Sustainable Asset Financing:
experiences with financing
through Public Private
Partnerships
Barrie Dowdeswell
Executive Director, European
Health Property Network
C–4
EVIDENCE BASED DESIGN
Mardelle Shepley, chair
Design Research in Neonatal
Intensive Care Units
Mardelle Shepley
Single-bed (private) Room
Care in the Newborn ICU
Robert White
Director of the Newborn Intensive
Care Unit, Memorial Hospital,
South Bend, Indiana, USA
The Presence of Families in
the Neonatal Intensive-care
Unit, NICU
Marie-Andrée Fournier
Manager of Health Care, Sandover
Pinder Architects, Australia and
Lecturer at the Faculty of Built
Environment, Art and Design
Curtin University of Technology,
Perth, Australia
D–4
ENGINEERING & ICT
Erik Veldhoen, chair
Director of Veldhoen and
Company, The Netherlands
E–4
COUNTRY PRESENTATIONS:
Germany
Existing Hospital Building
Structures hosting future
Clinical Development
Wolf-Dirk Rauh, architect
Co-founder of Rauh-Damm-Stiller-
Partner Planungs GmbH Arch.
BDA, Germany
Linus Hofrichter, architect
Co-founder of Sander Hofrichter
Architekten, Germany
Dialogue: old and new in
the German Hospital. Three
examples
Edzard Schultz, architect
Heinle, Wischer und Partner Freie
Architekten, Germany
GENERAL INFORMATION

DATE AND VENUE

13–14–15 April 2005,
University Medical Center Groningen,
Hanzeplein 1, Groningen, the Netherlands

REGISTRATION FEES
Wednesday 13 April € 195,00
Thursday 14 April (incl. dinner) € 325,00
Friday 15 April € 275,00
Attending three days € 595,00

EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNT
10% discount for registrations and
payment before 1 March 2005.

These amounts do not include VAT per participant ACCOMMODATION

per day. A limited number of reduced-fee places
are available for students. The fees for students are
€ 50.00 per day (Thursday 14 April: € 75.00).
The registration fees do not include hotel
accommodation.
You may make hotel reservations via Hotel Contact
(www.hotelcontact.nl/architectureofhospitals2005)
If you have any questions about your accommodations,
please contact Widhya Lefrands (wlefrands@hotelcontact.nl)
telephone 00 31 (0)70 313 11 26.

It is also possible to attend a single day of the

conference.
CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations must be made in writing before
15 March 2005. There is a cancellation fee of
€ 50.00. The full registration fee will be charged
for later cancellations. Replacements may utilise
your registration, provided you notify ROSTRA
Congrescommunicatie of this in writing.
DOCUMENTATION
You will receive a documentation folder containing
all relevant information, including a programme
booklet with information about the speakers.
REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION
ROSTRA Congrescommunicatie
Contact: Cindy Verbeek
2508 EH The Hague, the Netherlands
Telephone: 00 31 (0)70 364 87 03
Fax: 00 31 (0)70 356 28 78
Website: www.rostra.nl
and www.thearchitectureofhospitals.org
After registering, you will receive a confirmation, an
invoice and a route description.
ORGANISERS
University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands

FOR WHOM? PHOTOS UMCG

‘The Architecture of Hospitals’ is a unique meeting KuiperCompagnons, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
place for practising professionals, scientists,
architects, designers, technical specialists, facility
managers, care administrators and physicians from
around the world.

More information:

www.thearchitectureofhospitals.org
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS IS SPONSORED BY:

Plants for People

Siemens

BAM en Trebbe - construction Partnership Nelissen Van Egteren/Trebbe

Brocacef

ISIT - The Storage Company

Netherlands Board for Hospital Facilities

Deloitte

Van Heugten Consultants

Forbo Flooring

Getronics ICT solutions and services

Interoffice Office Supplies

Medtronic - Cardiac Rhythm Management

Nashuatec copiers and printers

Sijbes Office Supplier

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS IS SUBSIDIZED BY:

HGIS - Netherlands Culture Fund

Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur - The Netherlands Architecture Fund

Premsela-regeling - The Netherlands Architecture Fund

THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS COLLABORATES WITH:

Amice An Amicable network of Academical Medical Centers in Europe

University Medical Center Groningen

BNA Royal Institute of Dutch Architects

Health Council of the Netherlands

NAi Netherlands Architecture Institute

RuG University of Groningen

STAGG Public Health Section / Royal Institute of Dutch Architects

TU Delft - Delft University of Technology

L’assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge

Karolinska Institute, Medical University, Stockholm

Texas A&M University College of Architecture