Research integrated different information sources (bibliography, archives and direct observation), through the elaboration of new drawings of the selected works, describing them from the site description up to the technological detail. The methodology established a set of criteria for the selection and description of buildings and urban spaces.

This research found an important contribution in the knowledge as it concentrated on both the survey of the existing building types and the development of a technological know-how. It will be a significant contribution to knowledge in the healthcare buildings and its rehabilitation, as it concentrates on both the survey of the existing building types and the development of a technological Know-How as well as considering conservation and rehabilitation strategies.ĮWV studied the architecture built in Africa “Lusófona”, mostly in Angola and Mozambique, during the modern movement period in his possible continuity more or less explicit with the reference constituted by the Brazilian production. The relevance has to do with the developing of a meaningful knowledge for a responsible practice of planning and design addressing environment and cultural sustainable concerns. The effort to renew the world with pre-existing structures goes against the devotion to the constant new, which is still dominating our behavior. Yet this striking progress has created incredibly damaging effects as well. All this was possible due to modernity’s devotion to innovations in science and technology. In the last 50 years poverty and famine have declined whereas healthcare, education and emancipation have improved significantly worldwide. Subject to permanent alterations, in the context of the society transformations, these buildings will be transformed, deactivated or even demolish in a near future. Responding to health necessities, health care buildings are a guarantee of civilization. The goal is to study healthcare buildings from 20th century and their role in the welfare society policy, approaching future challenges driven by the developments in technology and medicine, and the need to assure a sustainable built environment (ToKiKi14).

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