Rural architecture. The peasant habitat as current heritage

Abstract

This paper argues that the architectural typologies of the rural habitat have historical value and validity to understand the socio-territorial processes that make up the rurality scenario. These processes can be understood by recognizing the practices, knowledge and techniques of those who inhabit these territories. For the development of this article, we propose to problematize two situations in communities in the northwest of Córdoba (Argentina), on one hand, the way in which public policies, specifically housing policies, intervene in rurality, ignoring the ways of inhabiting this territory, and on the other hand, the link that this has with architectural rationality, from which spaces are designed that still reproduce foundations based on the universal patterns of western modernity (mainly urban, anthropocentric and colonial). The objective is to delve into these aspects in order to understand how this architecture shapes a historical material and cultural landscape of our societies, and at the same time composes an invisibilized validity by the field of architecture and the intervention of public policies. For which it is proposed to reflect on a view of heritage that puts in value what has been said, and seeks to demystify the rural habitat as something of the past.