Barbara Huelat has proven that interior design impacts health outcomes. Here she reveals the secrets she gained over a lifetime for healers.

About this Event

Barbara J. Huelat, FASID, EDAC, AAHID, Author, Interior Designer, Healing Design Strategist is one of the world's preeminent experts and speakers on healthcare design and healing. She is a founding board member of the Center for Health Design, Former National President of the American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers and author of two nationally acclaimed books – Healing Environments: What’s the Proof and Healing Environments for the Mind, Body and Spirit.

Her three decades of design experience cover virtually all types, components and sizes of domestic and international healthcare facilities, including her signature projects with the Mayo Clinics, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute of Japan, and many more.

In this discussion she provides valuable information for healers and those involved in all types of spiritual and medical practice who are working on their own independent of large institutions. She has amazing insight into the environment, patient acuity, and health outcomes. Barbara's work has saved countless lives in subtle and unsuspecting ways. Tune in to learn more.

Barbara Huelat is a published author of two books, Healing Environments: What's the Proof? Publisher Medezyn Press, December 2008, Alexandrian, VA and Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind, and Spirit, Published Medezyn, 2003.  Chinese Version Healing Environments Design for the Body, Mind, and Spirit Published 2004 Wu-Nan Publishing, Taiwan. Translated into Chinese and distributed in Asia. 

She is a Fellow of the American Society of Interior Designer also an award-winning designer winning the 2020 ASID National Luminary Award Honoring Nancy Vincent for her work in Research.  She has been recognized with national project awards from The American Institute of Architects, The Center for Health Design, American Hospital Association, and ASID project awards for healing environments in cancer, aging, pediatrics, and hospitals.  She has been a hospice volunteer and a dementia caregiver for those she loved dearly. 

Her design thinking, books, blogs, and writing are sought after by academia, healthcare institutions, and popular press around the country and globally.

Dear Friends & Colleagues,

I’m thrilled to share with you that I am being honored with an ASID National Award!

The Society’s highest level of professional recognition, the ASID National Awards recognize a body of work created over the course of a career, with a focus on transformative design and leadership. Awards are presented within four categories: Designer of Distinction, Design for Humanity, Design Innovation, and the Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit award. I’m excited to announce that I’ve been selected to receive the Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit award this year.

I would like to invite you to the first ever ASID virtual awards ceremony to celebrate with me on Monday, July 13 from 2:30 - 3:30 PM EST. The event will unite design leaders from around the country, and will be hosted by Ed O’Keefe, CBS News Political Correspondent.

To register or to see more event information, please visit this link here.

Thank you for celebrating this milestone with me.

Sincerely,

Barbara

The Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit award This award pays tribute to Nancy Vincent McClelland, an ardent advocate for professional recognition in interior design and the first woman president of the American Institute of Decorators (now ASID). This year's recipient is Barbara J. Huelat, FASID, EDAC, AAHID, Author, Interior Designer, Healing Design Strategist.

Barbara is one of the field’s preeminent experts and a prominent speaker on healthcare design and technology. She is a founding board member of the Center for Health Design, Former National President of American Academy of Healthcare Interior Designers and author of two nationally acclaimed books – Healing Environments: What’s the Proof and Healing Environments for the Mind, Body and Spirit.

The DC Board of Architecture is postponing this event in caution regarding the Coronavirus. Please know that we will confirm once a new date is selected

Biophilia is defined as a love of the living world. We seek nature, especially when we don't feel well. Our work as architects and designers should embrace nature as the teacher to solve complex issues in challenging building spaces.This webinar will explain the mathematics, physics and biology that support the biophilic behavior and it will further discuss circadian and color kinetic lighting, human sustainability, healthy buildings, human factors, and nature's geometry of fractals as design tools for the built environment.