Modern tropical architecture: medicalisation of space in early twentieth-century Philippines.

The article focuses on inclusion of medicalisation into architecture and arts in the U.S. It discusses the dominant notions of space and their translation into built form through modern tropical architecture. It also focuses on the unexamined function of the medical complex that includes nursing training at the hospital during the American period from 1909. It reports that Daniel Burnham, an American architect is considered one of the pioneers of the City Beautiful Movement in the United States.