Architect D.Sc. Professor and Researcher of Healthcare Architecture. Post doc researcher at DPH/COC/FIOCRUZ. Alumni– PROARQ - FAU/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro Federal University. Former Architect of Rio de Janeiro Municipal Health Office. Member of the Directory of ABDEH- Brazilian Association for Development of Healthcare Buildings . Author and organizer of articles and books about Healthcare Architecture .
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When looking at healthcare buildings in Brazil, between the 1940 and 1960, it is concluded that, in addition to the suitability of the premises of health project, the architects were heavily influenced by the characteristics of the new modern architecture. This architecture develops from the concepts discussed and practiced by architects, in the light of the project of the building of Ministry of Education and Public Health, in 1936, and the exposure of new Brazilian architecture at MoMa in New York in 1943, which led to the publication of the book Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old (1652-1942), by Philip Goodwin.
From the use of concrete structures and not structural walls, drawn with modulation reached freedom in design and more flexible spaces, which could meet the medical welfare activities, to search for comfort in the wards of hospitalization, with a careful study of orientation of building blocks and the use of elements that could provide ventilation control recommended as essential points of the spaces for healthcare.
Finally, we find the care to add therapeutic gardens projects and works of art, like sculptures and murals-scoring and stating that the modern Brazilian architecture was a synthesis of the Arts that is a question discussed during the International Congress of Art Critics (AICA), held in 1959 in Brasilia, about to be opened. Thus, healthcare architecture reached a design capable of absorbing new technologies over time, aligning their typological attributes with a pioneering approach to environmental comfort and humanization, integral parts of modern design.
KEYWORDS: Modern Hospitals; Documentation of Hospitals; Hospital Typology
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Manual do Gestor Hospitalar-FBH- 2019- p.152-154
When looking at healthcare buildings in Brazil, between the 1940 and 1960, it is concluded that, in addition to the suitability of the premises of health project, the architects were heavily influenced by the characteristics of the new modern architecture. This architecture develops from the concepts discussed and practiced by architects, in the light of the project of the building of Ministry of Education and Public Health, in 1936, and the exposure of new Brazilian architecture at MoMa in New York in 1943, which led to the publication of the book Brazil Builds: Architecture New and Old (1652-1942), by Philip Goodwin.
From the use of concrete structures and not structural walls, drawn with modulation reached freedom in design and more flexible spaces, which could meet the medical welfare activities, to search for comfort in the wards of hospitalization, with a careful study of orientation of building blocks and the use of elements that could provide ventilation control recommended as essential points of the spaces for healthcare.
Finally, we find the care to add therapeutic gardens projects and works of art, like sculptures and murals-scoring and stating that the modern Brazilian architecture was a synthesis of the Arts that is a question discussed during the International Congress of Art Critics (AICA), held in 1959 in Brasilia, about to be opened. Thus, healthcare architecture reached a design capable of absorbing new technologies over time, aligning their typological attributes with a pioneering approach to environmental comfort and humanization, integral parts of modern design.
KEYWORDS: Modern Hospitals; Documentation of Hospitals; Hospital Typology
Manual do Gestor Hospitalar-FBH- 2019- p.152-154