Can Architecture Heal Us?

Timber instead of tiles, curiosity instead of corridors, and a 15-metre-high atrium designed to make people feel safer, healthier and more connected. Copenhagen's Centre for Health proposes a new typology for public healthcare architecture. 

In this episode, Michael Booth meets architect Dorte Mandrup, widely regarded as one of Denmark's greatest living architects, to explore how a complex and often contradictory brief — openness and privacy, care and community — was translated into a warm, tactile and quietly radical public building. 

Together they discuss the centre's boomerang-shaped footprint, full timber construction and soaring atrium, and how architecture can gently nudge behaviour, foster wellbeing and create spaces that feel inclusive without feeling exposed. 

Guest: 

• Dorte Mandrup, Arkitekt, Dorte Mandrup A/S 

Host:

• Michael Booth 

Let's Talk Architecture is a podcast by Danish Architecture Center. Sound edits by Munck Studios.