Architecture-For Health lecture series to
feature health facility design luminaries

Wednesdays at noon throughout the spring 2009 semester, leaders in health facility design will discuss the latest trends in their field at the Texas A&M College of Architecture as part of the Center for Health Systems and Design’s Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.

Most lectures in the series, co-sponsored by the Student Health Environments Association, will be held in the Wright Gallery, located on the second floor of the Langford A Building.

Wednesday, Feb. 4
“Cancer and Trends in Prevention and Treatment” — featuring Dr. Erin Fleener from the St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Clinic in Bryan, Texas.

Wednesday, Feb. 11
“Caution & Safety in the Healing Zone” — featuring Samuel W. Burnette, a senior designer and principal with Earl Swensson Associates Inc. of Nashville, ESA, founded in 1961, provides design services in architecture, interior architecture, master planning and space planning.

Wednesday, Feb. 18
“Therapeutic Gardens of the Hospital Civil de Culiacan” — featuring Heriberto Zazueto Madia, arquitectua y salud at Para Hospitales in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Wednesday, Feb. 25
“New Paradigms for Cancer Treatment” — featuring Richard L. Kobus, FAIA, FACHA,  senior principal at Tsoi/Kobus & Associates in Cambridge, Mass. His firm provides architectural, planning and interior design services.

Wednesday, March 4
“Building a Medical Campus with Clinical Relevance and Economical Significance for Local Municipalities” — featuring Thomas William Jackson, chief executive officer of the College Station Medical Center.

Wednesday, March 25
“Planning and Designing the new Parkland Hospital” — featuring Walter B. Jones, Jr., senior vice president of facilities at Parkland Health & Hospital Systems in Dallas. The hospital instantly became a part of American history in 1963 when president John F. Kennedy was rushed there after being shot in Dealey Plaza.

Wednesday, April 1
“Report from Japan: Building Process and Healthcare Facilities” — featuring Shigeru Yamaki, operations general manager of Taisei Corporation’s Planning & Design Division. Since its founding 131 years ago, the firm has completed many projects in Japan and throughout the world.

Wednesday, April 8
“Healthcare research at ZGF” — featuring Karl Sonnenberg, a partner at Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP in Portland, Ore. ZGF has built 29 healthcare facilities throughout the country.

Wednesday, April 15
“Current Healthcare Work of HKS in the U.S. and Abroad” — featuring two College of Architecture’s Outstanding Alumni, Ronald L. Skaggs, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI, and Joseph G. Sprague, FAIA, FACHA, FHFI. Skaggs is chairman emeritus of HKS, Inc., and Sprague is principal and senior vice president at HKS, one of the largest architectural and engineering firms in the nation.

Wednesday, April 22
“Hospitals in Japan: History, Trends and Technology” — featuring two scholars visiting Texas A&M from Japan: Kazu Okamoto and his wife Ruka Okamoto. Kazu is visiting from the University of Tokyo and the Kajima Corporation.

For more information about the series, contact the Center for Health Systems & Design at 979.845.7009.

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