Evolution of Public Hospital Architecture During the Interwar Lithuania

When Lithuania became an independent state, most hospitals were operating in unsuitable buildings. Therefore, many new modern buildings for hospitals had to be built in various cities. However, the changes in hospital architecture during the interwar period still remain unexplored. Therefore, by analysing the key examples, the current article discusses the evolution of hospital buildings during the interwar Lithuania.

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This article explores the “medicalization” of contemporary Danish hospital architecture. In the modern age, architecture and spatial design have been mobilized as remedies to further the health of the individual patient and of the population in general. In order to understand the present type of medicalization – as opposed to the early modern and classical modern types – we suggest a distinction between two kinds of biopolitics, in Michel Foucault’s sense of this term, respectively a biopolitics of bodies and a biopolitics of feelings. If the original medicalization was a somatic biopolitics, the contemporary medicalization could be described as an affective biopolitics, we claim. We focus on the ongoing boom in the construction of new hospitals in Denmark, discussing as empirical cases a planned hospital in Northern Zealand and a “multisensorial” delivery room in Herning, a Danish provincial town.

An Heterotopian Hospital: Architecture, Existence, Malady

<p>Artykuł przedstawia koncepcję heterotopii autorstwa Michela Foucaulta w jej zastosowaniu do przestrzeni szpitalnej (filozofia medycyny). Przestrzeń ta jest przesycona znaczeniami, metaforami i relacjami władzy. Wszystkie one mają wpływ na powrót do zdrowia przebywających w niej ludzi. Przestrzeń wywiera więc silny wpływ na nasz sposób myślenia w ogóle, przestrzeń "produkuje" myślenie, zatem myślenie, nawet jeśli jest aktem teoretycznym, ma charakter przestrzenny.</p>