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The origins of the hospital as a type are far from the city, but the typology of the city has played a large
part in shaping the modern hospital. Paradoxically, from the middle of the last century the design of city
hospitals has generally ignored the urban fabric in which they are set, making only the minimum
essential logistical connections. Now with advance in the understanding of environments for healing
and a greater appreciation of the role and value of networks of urban public space, architects and co-
designers need to rediscover and re-cast the typology of hospitals and healthcare settings generally to
enact a potent integration with the city. The great advances of science-based medicine in the 20th
century were reflected in hospital design by the domination of a particularly fervent variety of
functionalism. Medical and surgical processes came to be considered virtually deterministic as regards
building form; even though they change frequently in response to technological and clinical
developments. A hospital design is a complex function by virtue of its function. To be successful, a
hospital requires a great deal of preliminary study and planning. The table 1 provides the list of design
criteria’s required in the Health care Architecture typology. The students are requested to collect the
data’s for the literature reviews.