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A History of Health + Urbanism + Architecture by the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism How public health and urban planning grew up together, became distinct disciplines, and now are collaborating again with the architecture profession to tackle today’s health challenges. Read more > |
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  Designing Communities, Shaping Health An architect’s everyday decisions, large and small, can affect the physical and mental health of everyone who comes into contact with their work. Explore design choices and potential health impacts through this AIArchitect interactive graphic. Explore infographic >   Grey, Green, and Blue: Seattle’s Northgate by Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA The author of the book Retrofitting Suburbia details how architects and planners helped one Seattle neighborhood become more urban, but also more green and verdant. Read more >   The Newest Trend in Architecture Education: Public Health The recognition of health as a vital element of design is pairing architecture students with new, multidisciplinary academic allies, and creating a growing list of courses and degree programs combining architecture and health. Read more >   Healthy Design: The Call from City Hall Designing healthy cities isn’t just a job for architects and planners. It requires buy-in, vision, and most importantly, funding, from municipal leaders. Three cities—New York, Washington, D.C., and Portland—are setting the pace. Read more >   Hospitals Healing Communities Embracing the concept of true community health centers, hospitals are applying neighborhood-scale lessons of urban planning, siting, and health to the facility itself, as well as the surrounding community. Read more >   Moving Toward a Fit Nation From AIA New York’s FitNation exhibit, now on display at AIA National in Washington, D.C., this photo gallery shines a light on projects that get people active: refuges for urban farming, parks repurposed from blighted industrial space, or stairs simply too alluring to ignore. View photo gallery > |
 
From Health to Wellness If “health” is typically understood as being determined by what happens in a doctor’s office, then “wellness” is a product of everyday lifestyle choices, good and bad, that anyone’s environment encourages. The Detroit Collaborative Design Center has a 50-year plan that maps out this relationship for an entire neighborhood. Read more >
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  AIA Events and Resources The AIA has a wide variety of tools and resources—web sites, research reports, national and local events, and ongoing programs and initiatives—that explore the relationships between design and health, and encourage public and professional discourse. Read more > Visit the AIA Design + Health Landing Page > Learn More About Sustainability + Health > Find AIA Continuing Education Courses on Design + Health >  ADVERTISEMENTS 
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