Keywords
Training
Technology Transfer
Earth construction
Key Words Plus
Building materials – Research
Building
adobe – Research
Technology transfer
Architects - Professional education - Latin America
How to Cite
Abstract
This article pertains to the historical aspects of research, education,training, and technology transfer of the architecture and earthconstruction. The first part of this article presents a summary of thebackground of the construction techniques, the research involvingthis subject, as well as some of the entities that have collaboratedwith the technological development in Ibero-America; it also presentsthe technological progress throughout time, focusing on itsguidelines. The second part of this article displays peculiaritiesof the educational system, differentiating formal education andtraining, and correlates important educational centers that havecontributed for the education of professionals in Latin America. Thisarticle also presents a summary of the work performed by Cyted, aswell as the contribution by the Project and by the Ibero-american networkProterra in the technology transfer. Finally, this article reflectsupon the technology transfer and, based on the background fromthe authors and the Proterra work, prioritizes the characteristics ofthe transfer team, presenting a brief description of this team.Apuntes is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
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