Professional paper

PHYSICIANS AND ARCHITECTS – NOT AN ODD COUPLE

Avi Ohry ; Professor & Chair, Section of Rehabilitation Medicine, Reuth Medical Center, & Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Abstract

One may think that there is no apparent interface between so different occupations as medicine and architecture. The historical and present-day connections between these academic fields resulted in the creation of healthy environment, housing and hospital. This article also speaks about another meeting point of these professions: physicians who became architects (or amateur-architects) and personal friendships between physicians, scientists, and architects which resulted in fruitful and progressive architectural creations. Both professions may be regard as art and science as well.

Keywords

history of medicine; history of architecture; health-architecture

Hrčak ID:

111073

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/111073

Publication date:

15.12.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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