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School of Architecture

Built Environment and Health

Built Environment and Health

Faculty and students within this cluster leverage the strengths of Clemson’s reputable Architecture + Health Program and the Center for Health Facility Design and Testing. Building on the success of these programs, research studies often employ interdisciplinary teams and evidence-based design approaches to investigate how healthcare facilities contribute to outcomes such as clinical outcomes, operational efficiency, clinical effectiveness, occupant satisfaction, social equity and the ability to accommodate change. Various research approaches are used throughout the design process, such as pre- and post-occupancy evaluations, simulation-based research and virtual reality/artificial reality applications. Our community of scholars explores critical conversations around ways to create better-designed environments that promote health at all scales, across different geographic contexts, for diverse populations and across multiple building typologies and spaces. We strive to generate practical research that can be applied to forward-thinking practices and global movements interested in creating knowledge that improves human, community and planetary health.

Built Environment and Health

Examples of research topics:

  • Health Facility Design and Testing
  • Evidence-based healthcare design
  • Design for health and wellness
  • Healthy communities
  • Pre- and Post-Occupancy Evaluations
  • Design for mental health
  • Design for special populations
  • VR/AR applications in healthcare design
  • Environment and behavior studies

Point of Contact

Dina Battisto, Ph.D.
Professor and Co-Director of the Ph.D. in Design and the Built Environment
Email: dbattis@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 2-138

or

Anjali Joseph, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing
Email: anjalij@clemson.edu
Office: Lee 2-141

Core Faculty

Dina Battisto

Professor of Architecture

Design for health and wellness; evidence-based health facility design; pre-and post-occupancy evaluations; sustainable design


Email: dbattis@clemson.edu

Vincent Blouin, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Architecture

Sustainability and high-performance buildings; Systems integration; Design and optimization; Multi-physics numerical simulation; material science


Email: vblouin@clemson.edu

Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Architecture

Spatial Equity and Health; Urban Design and Public Space; Dispossession, Displacement & Gentrification; Women and Children’s Environments; Participatory Design & Action Research


Email: ldeaton@clemson.edu

Anjali Joseph, Ph.D., EDAC

Director, Center for Health Facilities Design & Testing; Professor of Architecture

Evidence-based health facility design; Design for safety; Simulation-based evaluation; VR/AR applications in healthcare design; Design for mental health


Email: anjalij@clemson.edu

Winifred Elysse Newman, Ph.D.

Associate Dean for Research & Graduate Studies

Space perception and adaptive architecture; Ecological psychology; Neuroaesthetics; Neuroscience; Data visualization


Email: elyssen@clemson.edu

Hyejung Chang, MLA, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture

Environmental Ethics; Landscape Aesthetics; Typology and Phenomenology in Theory and Design


Email: hyejunc@clemson.edu

Mary G. Padua, Ph.D., ASLA, CLARB, RLA

Professor of Landscape Architecture

Adaptive strategies; the meaning and cultivation of place; Modernity in Asia; social theory and cultural phenomenon; Human-centered design; Health and well-being/Salutengenic design and immersive polysensory outdoor restorative environments; Technology (blue-green infrastructure, big data, data analytics, evaluation research) in landscape architecture


Email: mgpadua@clemson.edu

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