Abstract

JOSE, Nestor. Dirt architecture: a species in extinction?. Cuad. Fac. Humanid. Cienc. Soc., Univ. Nac. Jujuy [online]. 2002, n.18, pp.181-184. ISSN 1668-8104.

The dirt architecture has been an answer to the habitat for the inhabitants of great part of our planet. Having itself developed with a simple and economic technology, with an own identity, that caused that many cultures have adopted it, imprimiendo its particular seal to him, today by different circumstances is in danger to disappear. The Andean region is being invalidada by new architectures, that do not reunite the specificationses nor economic that demand the moment and the place. Many organisms, governmental or no, are led the study of this architecture, to introduce improvements and to raise policies of conservation and diffusion. It is important, that in urgent form, arise measures to preserve them. A taking of conscience in such sense is an urgent obligation.

Keywords : Patrimony; Dirt architecture.

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