Robin Guenther Healthcare Architect Part1

On Saturday 06 May 2023, Robin Guenther, an architect and environmental health advocate who designed green, sustainable health care facilities and co-wrote the first guide to building them, died at a hospital in Manhattan. She was 68.  This episode was recorded at Perkins & Will New York City on Thursday 16 February 2023.

Robin Guenther is Principal of Perkins&Will and Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm. Her innovative healthcare projects have been published nationally and internationally. 

Healthcare Design magazine named her the “#1 Most Influential Designer in Healthcare” in 2010. In 2012, Fast Company included her as one of the “100 most creative people in business.” She was a 2014 TEDMED speaker.

Robin works at the intersection of healthcare architecture and sustainability policy, participating in a wide range of advocacy initiatives. She is Senior Advisor to Health Care Without Harm, co-coordinated the Green Guide for Health Care, and has served on the LEED for Healthcare committee.