This paper explores the influence of medicine on architectural research after the Second World War. I look at the funding of research into hospital design by the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust as a case study. This charitable foundation was set up in 1939 by the industrialist Lord Nuffield, William Morris, founder of Morris Motors. In 1949 the Trust partnered with the University of Bristol to investigate the functions and design of hospitals, triggering one of the most influential architectural research programmes in post-war Britain. I argue that the Trust’s interest in the hospital as a building type initiated a new understanding of architectural research on the model of medical research, triangulating a profession, post-graduate university training, and private philanthropy. I focus on the writings of Richard Llewelyn Davies (later Baron Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe), the Director of the Trust’s investigation into hospitals from 1949–1960. His contributions to research as Chair at the Bartlett School of Architecture (1960–1969) are well known. Scholars including Reyner Banham, Anthony Vidler, and Alise Upitis have explored how he pioneered the techno-scientific turn in architectural pedagogy. However, the structural change for the profession he envisioned and its basis in the Nuffield Trust model remains unexamined. Looking at his work as an extension of the history and agenda of the Nuffield Trust allows us to move away from the disciplinary assessment of architectural research as a problem in pedagogy and re-centre it as a question of how architecture might participate in improving social welfare.

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治疗建筑研究：纳菲尔德信托基金和战后医院

本文探讨了二战后医学对建筑研究的影响。我以纳菲尔德省医院信托基金为医院设计研究提供的资金作为案例研究。该慈善基金会由实业家纳菲尔德勋爵、莫里斯汽车公司创始人威廉莫里斯于 1939 年创立。1949 年，该信托基金与布里斯托大学合作调查医院的功能和设计，引发了战后英国最具影响力的建筑研究项目之一。我认为，信托基金对作为建筑类型的医院的兴趣引发了对医学研究模型、专业三角测量、大学研究生培训和私人慈善事业的建筑研究的新理解。我关注的是 Richard Llewelyn Davies（后来是 Hastoe 的 Baron Llewelyn-Davies）的著作，他是 1949 年至 1960 年间信托基金调查医院的主任。他在巴特利特建筑学院（1960-1969）担任主席期间对研究的贡献是众所周知的。包括 Reyner Banham、Anthony Vidler 和 Alise Upitis 在内的学者探索了他如何开创建筑教育学的技术科学转向。然而，他所设想的职业结构变化及其在纳菲尔德信托模型中的基础仍未得到检验。将他的工作视为纳菲尔德信托历史和议程的延伸，使我们能够摆脱将建筑研究的学科评估视为教育学中的一个问题，并将其重新定位为建筑如何参与改善社会福利的问题.