Exhibition: Designing Doctors
The Osler Library of the History of Medicine is happy to
announce the opening of a new exhibition, curated by Prof. Annmarie Adams,
Director of the School of Architecture at McGill University.
Designing Doctors showcases the Osler Library’s
outstanding collection of architectural advice literature on hospital
architecture. Its focus is on the development of the so-called pavilion-plan
hospital, a ubiquitous typology for hospitals in the English-speaking world in
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which maximized ventilation and
daylight; their signature detail was the Nightingale ward, a large, open space
which typically housed about thirty patients.
Two sub-themes shape the organization of the
exhibition: the role of physicians in
the design of pavilion-plan hospitals and the position of hospitals as tourist
destinations. Consequently, Designing
Doctors presents a series of classic books written by doctor-architect teams or
physicians who saw themselves as architectural experts. Several of these books
are dedicated by or to famous figures, including Florence Nightingale, Henry
Saxon Snell, and Edward Fletcher Stevens.
Souvenir items featuring hospital imagery—an inkwell, a soup bowl,
hospital postcards, and a humorous board game—serve as reminders of the wide
reach of hospital architecture images in twentieth-century popular culture.
The exhibition is in the lobby of the Osler Library of
the History of Medicine, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, 3rd floor, McGill
University, 3655 Promenade-Sir-William-Osler, Montreal. Open Monday to Friday,
9 AM to 5 PM. Admission is free. Through August.
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