The Popular Habitat. Some Theoretical Contributions from the Housing Reality of Dispossessed Sectors

Abstract

The various ways in which the housing problems of the popular sectors are addressed, promotes inquiry into the different approaches of popular habitat, primarily from the formation of the discipline of architecture. Popular habitat approaches that have been coined over recent decades in Latin America are designed from the developmental trends, from architecture and technicaleconomic discipline, advances made by grassroots organizations dedicated to this subject and the Andean notions (sumak kawsay and qamaña sum). Likewise, the comparison between the differences and encounters relative to the prevailing positions of each are expressed qualitatively. The ultimate goal is to build a theoretical framework in which the proposed approaches to the popular habitat are established, incorporating the views of the various international organizations that have operated in the academic building in these terms.