Reflections on the academic commitment of architecture schools towards current urbanization tendencies in Latin America

The article deals with the issue of architectural education and professionalization in Latin America. Beginning with a succinct depiction provided by United Nations, among others, in which the subcontinent comes out as the most urbanized region of the world, and a place where social and economic ine...

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Autores:
Niño Soto, Alexander
Muñoz, Mauricio
Tipo de recurso:
Article of investigation
Fecha de publicación:
2013
Institución:
Universidad Antonio Nariño
Repositorio:
Repositorio UAN
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.uan.edu.co:123456789/5567
Acceso en línea:
http://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/87
http://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/5567
Palabra clave:
Architecture
education
Latin America
21st Century
Arquitectura
educación
siglo XXI
América Latina
Rights
openAccess
License
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
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Summary:The article deals with the issue of architectural education and professionalization in Latin America. Beginning with a succinct depiction provided by United Nations, among others, in which the subcontinent comes out as the most urbanized region of the world, and a place where social and economic inequalities uphold over 124 million people living in poverty —more than 25% of all city dwellers—, afar from comprising 5 out of the 20 worst ranked nations in regards to absolute environmental impact, the authors raise the question of how to build a more suitable urban milieu for Latin America’s future out from the academia. In this context, the school of architecture at the Antonio Nariño University (UAN, as per the Spanish acronym), benefiting from its presence in 9 Colombian cities  Bogota, Neiva, Palmira, Ibague, Villavicencio, Bucaramanga, Cucuta, Popayan y Puerto Colombia—, aims to bring up its students under an actual state of urban, regional and spatial conditions, revolving its undergraduate program around a curricular structure composed of lines of study, thematic units, key concepts’ application and research projects.