“I chose the LA(H)B because, even though I had worked for 20 years as an infrastructure specialist in one of the largest clinics in Colombia and therefore knew the details about the operations and the problems of the healthcare sector, I wanted to know the different types of services and approaches at an international level, since the processes vary due to diverse factors, such as location, culture and healthcare policies.”

“By working inside the clinics you concentrate on the day-to-day, the equipment, the maintenance, the functionality and the budgets, the LA(H)B has allowed me to have tools to approach the design of healthcare institutions throughout their totality, creating master plans for existing institutions and designing optimal architectural configurations for new clinics.”

Curriculum

Martha Aguirre is an architect from La Universidad de San Buenaventura in Calí. In 2017 she joined the LA(H)B team in the third edition of the postgraduate  course Hospital Architecture for the 21st Century. She is currently a consultant in hospital architecture, developing functional management master plans and designing infrastructure projects across a wide range of scales.

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