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

by Aaron Betsky

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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 architectural photographer Tom Bonner. Co-published with the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
  • ISBN10 0819188786
  • ISBN13 9780819188786
  • Publish Date 24 May 1993
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University Press of America
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English