Maggie's Centres : on the road
2022
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This guide traces the history of Maggie's cancer treatment centres and takes visitors to see how they have grown up in Britain and elsewhere to become a new type of institution; a paradigm for architecture. Founded by Maggie Keswick Jencks and Charles Jencks, both landscape designers and architects, each Maggie's Centre is a successful example of a 'hybrid of four buildings: it's a non-hospital institute, it's a kind of non-home house, a non-confessional religious refuge and a non-musuem art gallery. However, it presents traces of all four typologies, used in a new way' (C.J., 2018). The book's jacket opens out into a map marking the location of each centre.
Main title:
Maggie's Centres : on the road / Caterina Frisone ; essays by Laura Andreini [and five others].
Author:
Frisone, Caterina, editorAndreini, L. (Laura), writer of added commentary
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
Florence : Forma Edizioni srl, 2022.
Collation:
151 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour) ; 17 cm
Notes:
Dust jacket folds out to map.Includes index.
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9788855210034 (pbk)
Dewey class:
725.54
LC class:
NA2545.T4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2559569