Abstract
The two most significant industrial buildings of the 19th century were Paxton's Crystal Palace and Brunel's Renkioi Hospital. For they incorporated on a large scale the essential features of industrialized building process from the site to the factory. Brunel's Renkioi hospital was built for the Crimean War and an early example of a pre-fabricated building with good ventilation and temperature control. Florence Nightingale's research resulted in the publication in 1860 of Notes on Hospitals, and mentioned there that 'Here two out of every five men had died, contrasting sharply with the hut hospital at Renkioi nearby, designed by I K Brunel, with a mortality rate of 3%.' Brunel's Hospital affected to the Herbert Hospital, London, that was the most modernized hospital of the time.
