The History of Architecture and Urbanism in Portugal updating concern through the knowledge of the 'Scientific Research in Architecture' developed in the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC). The interdisciplinary lines of investigation examined in LNEC aim to assist the Government in public policies prosecution. Originally constituted to support the country in the public works development, LNEC achieved worldwide recognition, but the socioeconomic changes witnessed by LNEC had profound implications in the scientific-technological research over the years. It is essential to evaluate systematically the importance of this public institution in the research of Architecture, knowing the history, themes and methodologies of research, participants and centers/researchers of reference, in order to contribute to the knowledge of a Cultural Heritage, archived between Engineers and developed, over the last fifty years, by Architects.

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The socioeconomic changes felt in Portugal in the second half of the 20th century were also witnessed by the Portuguese National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC) and, consequently, in the scientific-technological research developed there. The knowledge of the scientific research developed in LNEC and the manifold stakeholders aim a better understanding of the contemporary world.