From the second half of the 1960s, social and economic transformations accelerated, which led to new concepts that were the basis of many meetings sponsored under the approaches of UNESCO and ICOMOS, which had been recently created. From them it was possible to create a new way of reflecting the immensity of the complexity of the issues raised by the need to recover and rethink heritage.
As a result of these multiple reflections, in 1972, in what would be the last years of the New State regime in Portugal (Estado Novo, EN), and with the limitations imposed by it, the three works analyzed here were published. All of them already reflect a new approach to heritage.Theirauthorswere Fernando Távora (1923-2005), Bartolomeu Costa Cabral (1929) andAlcino Soutinho (1930-2013),