Description: Winner of the 1994 Progressive Architecture Award for Architectural Research " Victor Regnier’ s work is one of the few significant additions to the research on one of the most important architectural challenges facing the design professions today: how to design supportive and attractive environments for our nation’ s rapidly-growing, aged population. His research and writing challenge the profession to reconceive these environments as enriched housing rather than health care institutions." Bradford Perkins, FAIA Partner, Perkins-Eastman and Partners " Victor Regnier’ s new book should be read both for its approach to using environment-behavior research and for the lessons it has to offer about assisted living. The book is itself a prototype of inquiring process and design content. Its vivid examples and careful analysis significantly improve our understanding of the cross-cultural principals of prototype buildings." John Zeisel, Ph.D Author, Inquiry by Design: Tools for Environment-behavior Research. " As the nation moves towards the development of a comprehensive health care system, it is clear that a major component of the plan will be alternatives to institutionalization. Victor Regnier’ s exemplary book clearly and cogently discusses the newest, most exciting, and most promising of these alternative housing/health care arrangements— assisted living. For such a new concept to receive detailed attention from such a seasoned researcher is fortunate indeed. It is must reading for professional and consumer alike." Paul A. Kerschner, Ph.D. Executive Director The Gerontological Society of America

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