TY - SER TI - Concepción y diseño del espacio hospitalario hoy SN - 0210-5020 N1 - Este artículo se encuentra disponible en su edición impresa N2 - It is necessary to think more about the hospital before undertaking its design... The objective has to be the definition, not only of the functions to be carried out in the hospital, but also of the set of systems that make it up...Not only do we have to detail the location of the functions that the hospital, or a unit of the same, develop together with a careful list of the spaces necessary for it, but rather its organizational structure must be designed at all levels, the necessary resulting systems and their definition, and the their future validity. And this reflection must be participative, but not from the pejorative point of view of satisfying the user, but from the most direct and certain one of finding the clearest and most profitable ways to organize people's work.>> These words from Mr. Alfonso Casares are illustrative of the contents expressed in his article where he makes a careful and entertaining reflection on the terms ergonomics, hospital design, how the old hospitals were conceived and based on what parameters are conceived now, what should be the work of the architect, etc ER -