HEALTH & THE CITY

Although we’ve come to the end of the road of this semester and for most of us, our academic career; this is only the beginning of rest...

It seems that just a soon as we started this semester it has come to a close. It really does just feel like last week we were starting up...

As you probably know if you have been following this blog, our semester long design project has been based on a replacement facility for...

Every new settlement/development brings hope for resurrection for its surroundings in many cases; or at least that is the intention of...

The start, progress and end of a journey has different effects on a human's learning. For some the end will be when they reach their...

This blog post is an update to the mid-review post, on how our final project developed. Below is a virtual reality video we created of...

Being acknowledged as the nation's Rail Hub, Chicago's railroads support $1 trillion worth of goods to be carried, transferred and...

This week we discussed the beauty of the 606 trail, which extends 2.7 miles east-west through Logan Square. The active trail was...

As our semester starts to wrap up so have our hospital visits. Since our studio has been focused on Community Health from the beginning...

The Bloomingdale Trail used to be a 2.7-mile railrod on the northside of Chicago. The Chicago government converted it into an elevated...

Of the many construction site tours that I’ve had the opportunity of exploring this semester, this was organized outside of our Health &...

Chicago's 606 Bloomingdale Trail was a unused relic of a railroad which is now turned into a public park and open space. It is a 2.7 mile...

Rails to Trails - 606 The Bloomingdale Line was a 2.7-mile elevated railroad that ran east-west on the northwest side of Chicago; that...

"A Hospital Without Walls" written in collaboration with Noopur Thakkar Intro: In collaboration with HDR, our task this semester has been...

While driving back into the City I passed an Oasis Station that sat above the highway and was coupled with an i-pass station. This got me...

During our discussion on therapeutic gardens we decided to check out one of the cities most famous parks and also our neighbor to the...

After a trip to Lurie Childrens Hospital located just off of Michigan Avenue it got me thinking about the differences between children's...

Earlier this week, Douglas King spoke to us about the opportunities and challenges in the emerging field of Vertical Healthcare Design....

We walked through Millennium Park yesterday to speculate the landscape with a specific theory (I chose ART). The Attention Restoration...