ABSTRACT
This chapter examines global demographic trends contributing to the growing need for hospice and related palliative care facilities in developing societies. This is followed by a discussion of the functions of art and architecture as palliative and therapeutic affordances in their own right. Examples of interior and exterior landscape amenities are presented, accompanied by numerous illustrations. The Maggie’s Centre designed by Frank Gehry, in Dundee, Scotland, is presented as a case study of the way design + health concerns can be interwoven in a compassionate and yet aesthetically sophisticated manner. The concluding section of this chapter is on hospice form and culture. The growing importance of landscape and nature affordances – and in particular the emerging theraserialization movement – consisting of rationalized transparency, and the layering and overlay of interior with exterior space – is discussed. At the conclusion of the chapter, a case is made to develop a day-only community-based palliative care analog to the successful Maggie’s Centres (which numbered nineteen as of 2019).
