Ahuja Nitin K
Internal Medicine Residency Program, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA.
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2012 Jul;67(3):398-427. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/jrr030. Epub 2011 Jul 1.
The 1917-25 planning and construction at the University of Michigan of a new University Hospital, later dubbed Old Main, offers a noteworthy case study of the formal convergence of hospital and factory in early twentieth-century America. Designed by Albert Kahn, the architect responsible for Ford Motor Company's archetypal automobile plants, and located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, less than forty miles from Detroit's burgeoning factory landscape, Old Main was well positioned to reflect the values of industry in both appearance and operation. The building's outer surface represents a striking departure from the historicism that characterized several other hospitals of this period, while plans for the building's novel diagnostic unit demonstrate unique operational parallels to the assembly line model of production. Ultimately, Old Main's industrial design similarities cast it as a precociously modernist hospital, relating streamlined form to function more explicitly than many of its contemporary institutions.
1917年至1925年期间，密歇根大学规划并建造了一座新的大学医院，后来被称为“老主楼”，它为20世纪初美国医院与工厂在形式上的融合提供了一个值得关注的案例研究。这座医院由阿尔伯特·卡恩设计，他也是福特汽车公司典型汽车工厂的设计师，医院位于密歇根州的安娜堡，距离底特律蓬勃发展的工厂区不到40英里，“老主楼”在外观和运营方面都很好地体现了工业价值观。该建筑的外表面与这一时期其他几家医院所具有的历史主义风格截然不同，而其新颖的诊断科室规划展示出与装配线生产模式独特的运营相似之处。最终，“老主楼”在工业设计上的相似之处使其成为一座早熟的现代主义医院，比起许多同时期的机构，它将流线型形式与功能的关系展现得更为明确。
