Hospital architecture and care during the 15th to the 19th centuries

Abstract

This text aims to offer an approach to architecture for healing and care, reviewing the different architectural models, since the fifteenth century have been developed throughout the history of humanity to respond to the needs of health have sprung up to the new examples that arise after their own scientific discoveries of the nineteenth century, a shift in the conception of the hospital building. The brief tour of the hospital architecture, which focuses on the European scene also addresses the importance presented at the time, and has survived until today, the figure of Florence Nightingale, in the Anglo-Saxon environment, such as the rest of the planet.

Keywords

• Hospital
• Arquitectura hospitalaria
• Nightingale, Florence
• Cuidados