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This text is in English & Portuguese. The Luz Integrated Health
Complex, comprising the Hospital da Luz and the Casas da Cidade
(Senior Residences), is situated in the Luz neighbourhood, to the
north of Lisbon. Designed by the Lisbon-based architectural firm
RISCO, it is seen as a benchmark for state-of-the-art developments
in hospital architecture. In her text Catherine Slessor describes
it as follows: 'This project is striking on many levels, but most
notably in the way that it rationalises, dignifies and humanises a
large and complex healthcare programme. Perhaps the best and most
paradoxical epithet that any critic can offer is that the Hospital
da Luz doesn't particularly look or feel like a hospital. Rather,
the architecture reconceptualises the notion what that might be,
and then skilfully socialises this notion so that it becomes a
built and experiential reality. And in doing so, another subtle
shift is applied to the evolving continuum of the hospital as one
of the modern era's most fundamental yet elusive building types'.
There are further contributions by Luis Santiago Baptista and Axel
Hinrich Murken who provides a comprehensive overview of the history
of hospital architecture. In addition to the large selection of
plans and images there are various texts by architects and
engineers who were involved in the construction.
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