Housing and its patrimonial appreciation: A necessary reconfiguration

Abstract

The housing has been classified as heritage, largely because it belongs to a specific period, the distinction is automatically granted to buildings erected prior to the 20^th century. These are considered to have historical and cultural richness; the house is inserted in the set of properties that are protected by institutions such as INAH or UNESCO. Thus, heritage is inextricably related to history. The objective of the text is, on the one hand, to make evident how research on housing within heritage is generally consequence of the safeguard granted to a historical context. given for example, to a historical context. This research addresses the new architectural approaches of the twentieth century, as well as the housing projects and their formal reconfiguration that considered what was established by the circumstances of the time, both in the academic, professional, and in the political- economic sphere, without this meaning leaving aside the roots and social identification, as well as its historical- cultural richness.