Antecedents – the “Minimal Patient Room”

Originally published on Payette’s website, this is the second post in a retrospective series examining how the early work of the firm in healthcare design established deep roots for our practice. Part 1 – An Innovative Prototype “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana, 1906 In May 1949, Markus & Nocka (which eventually became Payette starting in the 1960s) published a short article in the journal Hospital Management with the curious title, “Want to CutRead more

Antecedents – the “Parallel Service Plan”

Originally published on Payette’s website, this is the first post in a retrospective series examining how the early work of the firm in healthcare design established deep roots for the practice. Last year, Michael Murphy of MASS Design Group invited me to give a lecture to his seminar class at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. The course was called “The Architecture of Health: Power, Technocracy, and the Hospital, 1400-present,” and I would be presenting during week six, which theRead more