Lifetime Leadership Award
Chair of Judging Panel
John Wells-Thorpe
International Advisor, International Academy for Design & Health
Criteria
Awarded to a healthcare leader and visionary who has shown an ongoing, lifelong commitment to enhancing the health, wellbeing and quality of people’s lives through their dedication to healthcare design. The award recognises the human and personal qualities needed to push back the boundaries of progress and inspire future generations.
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Eb Zeidler, winner of the
inaugural Lifetime Leadership Award
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Winner
Eb Zeidler
Judges' Citation
"Eb Zeidler has designed numerous healthcare projects in the USA, Germany, Hong Kong as well as Canada. He has received over 80 national and international awards and over 400 articles on his work have been published. Beyond practice, he has shared his ideas academically and in his writing, having completed four books and lectured widely.
Three seminal healthcare projects – McMaster University Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton; Walter C. MacKenzie Health Sciences Centre, Edmonton; The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, from the 1960s, 1970’s and 1980’s respectively, have captured imagination, opened eyes and sparked debate among the healthcare architectural profession. All have received international acclaim for their visionary approach to raising the status of hospital design beyond providing a purely technical solution.
Eb Zeidler was a pioneer in showing the world that modern, operationally efficient hospitals need not be mere ‘factories’ for treating the sick. Instead, his innovative design recognized the physical, psychological, aesthetic and intellectual needs of patients, staff and visitors alike.
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| Eb Zeidler (right) receiving the Lifetime Leadership Award from Prof Alan Dilani of the International Academy for Design & Health (left), and Cliff Harvey, chief architect at the Ontario Ministry of Health (middle) |
He showed the way to future generations of architects and master- planners by dealing practically with the reality of ongoing change in the delivery of healthcare. His approach to the use of interstitial space and modular planning as a means of increasing flexibility and reducing life cycle costs was widely regarded as having set a new standard for ‘future-proofing’.
Whereas many healthcare architects are known solely for excelling in this area of this specialization, Eb Zeidler’s pioneer work spans the boundaries of commercial, retail, entertainment, education, healthcare and places of worship. Indeed, his ability to apply holistic expertise in all these human spaces attracted wide admiration.
He has influenced many of today’s architects who are shaping the next generation of hospitals. For many architects, the time working with Eb stands as a significant episode in their career; inspired by exposure to his unique foresight, his attention to detail and his capacity to combine human sensibilities with practical requirements."
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