Director, Catholic League for the Poor of Nigeria, Inc.
Jan Madey, Architect
Mr. Madey is an architect with over 30 years’ experience in design of hospitals and other medical and commercial research centers in the United States and Overseas. He holds the position of Senior Project Manager and Laboratory Planner at Huitt-Zollars/Morris. In addition to providing advice to Fr. John as a Board Member, Mr. Madey is harnessing his multiple talents as our group’s key professional during the concept design stage of the planned Western style hospital that Fr. John wishes to be built in Okoti-Odekpe, Anamba, Nigeria. His team portfolio includes the The Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and Rice University, Houston, Texas. He is known in architecture circles for his extensive international perspective. Mr. Madey earned his Master’s Degree in Architecture from Gdansk University of Technology in Poland.
How do you – sitting in Houston – design a new hospital for rural Nigeria that will operate according to internationally recognized standards for medical and mental health care?
hat was the challenge facing me when I answered Fr. John Ugobueze’s call for a volunteer AIA architect. I have helped major medical corporations, along with a team of other architects, in designing and overseeing the building of new hospitals in the United States and overseas. So I am no stranger to such tasks. Local building standards and building techniques differ from country to country, but the strict international standards of conceptualizing and designing a hospital places a high burden of responsibility on architects, engineers, and others responsible for creating the areas where the where physicians, nurses and hospital staff daily provide medical and mental health care for patients under their care.
Jan Madey, AIA
