Anyone selecting art for hospitals should study this book, now the most up-to-date and authoritative resource for visual art in healthcare environments, and one that helps to bridge the gap between healthcare architecture and design on the one hand and arts in health on the other.
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Edward Hopper, Woman Smoking, Looking Out Window, 1940.
The practice of evidence-based design, as it is defined and credentialed, as its history is told, its storehouse of knowledge kept at the Center for Health Design, famously begins with a single study by psychologist Roger Ulrich. Having published previously in environmental psychology, specifically on the subjects of “visual landscapes,” he made a discovery in 1984 that helped to create an entirely new field of study.
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