Stories and reflections on the self-production of housing from Jaime Nisnovich's manuales prácticos de construcción
For many years, there have been manuals that support spontaneous or planned housing self-production processes, providing knowledge to improve them. With the return of democracy in Argentina in 1983, with financing from international organisations and dialogue with various actors, who lived in low-in...
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Universidad Nacional del Nordeste. Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unne.edu.ar/index.php/crn/article/view/8588 |
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| Sumario: | For many years, there have been manuals that support spontaneous or planned housing self-production processes, providing knowledge to improve them. With the return of democracy in Argentina in 1983, with financing from international organisations and dialogue with various actors, who lived in low-income neighborhoods, the initiative of the Manuales Prácticos de Construcción, promoted by architect Jaime Nisnovich, emerged. These were the beginnings of what would become the most consulted construction manual in the country and an adventure that continues to the present day, focusing on a public that is difficult to access through public policies: the self-builder and/or self-manager of their own homes through their own savings or credits,. a figure that has populated and continues to occupy large areas of the country. This article reconstructs the history of Nisnovich's manuals, in dialogue with historical and current debates on the self-construction of housing and the role of architecture. |
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