Architecture and Medicine: I.M. Pei Designs the Kirklin Clinic

by Aaron Betsky

The Kirklin Clinic, in Birmingham, Alabama, is the first freestanding medical building designed by one of America's most significant modern architects, I.M. Pei. The text, written by architectural critic and historian Aaron Betsky, is based on interviews with the architect and the surgeon whose vision it was to create this world-class clinic. The story of the evolution of the clinic is illustrated by many striking photographs by well-known Los Angeles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819188786
• ISBN13: 9780819188786
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.3" x 9.3"