Housing for Low-Income Sectors in the Education Project by the School of Habitat Sciences

Abstract

The article exposes the general social and economic characteristics of today’s society, where the University’s academic behavior is developed, as well as the principles that guide the decisions that dominate the academic process of the past few cycles in regards to “Social Housing” in the Architecture Program’s research praxis. It also summarizes the contents of two academic areas related to understanding and implementing the design in the issue of housing for lowincome sectors and its results, which became material for discussion at the Sixteenth Meeting of the Latin American University Network of Housing Departments (ULACAV), held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 2010. The author describes the academic process’ background and compares it with current production and its results, which determine future commitments in the professorship’s lecture development.