Design Disruption: Designing The Hospitals Of The Future

This Episode will focus on Designing the Hospitals of the Future. Our guests will be Allison Mendez and Michael Pukszta, architects at CannonDesign, a firm that is rethinking medical spaces worldwide. Both specialize in working with top healthcare institutions—from small clinics to cancer care centers to major academic hospitals— to flexibly plan and adapt for the future. We will discuss a broad range of disruptions, including rethinking wellness and mental health, incorporating biophilic design, creating pop-up facilities and health care startup spaces, and adapting hospitals to new threats like COVID-19. Images of the architects and their work can be found here.

The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, a contributor to The Times of India and founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents. ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.