Keywords
contemporary
trends
habitat
sustainability
Key Words Plus
Building
adobe - Research
Earthquakes and building - Testing
Architecture - Technological innovations
How to Cite
Abstract
This article reflects on the principal tendencies in earthenarchitecture during the last decades and the actual challenges inthis field at a global scale. Projects from several cultural and geographicalcontexts were selected, emphasizing on Latin America,in order to identify different ways of constructing and producingbuildings of earth. Several opinions on the reach of earth as a buildingmaterial, its manifestations in social housing and its links tothe theory of sustainability are considered. Important advances arefound in the fields of housing, public buildings, recommendationsfor construction in seismic regions, bioclimatic architecture, tourisminfrastructure initiatives and technological innovation focused onthe study of materials and their behavior in construction systems.As future research subjects are recommended: normalization ofconstruction with earth towards the industrialization of systemsand processes; the technological innovation oriented at improvingexisting dwellings in seismic regions; education at all levels; andthe creation of alternative models of do-it-yourself building in socialhousing.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.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.