Housing and development in Latin America: the Inter American Housing and Planning Center (CINVA) as a transnational zone

• Grant number: 22/07404-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: May 01, 2023 - April 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Fundamentals of Architecture and Urbanism
• Principal Investigator: Nilce Cristina Aravecchia Botas
• Grantee: Nilce Cristina Aravecchia Botas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: ana claudia scaglione veiga de castro ; Ana Patricia Montoya Pino ; Leandro Daniel Benmergui ; Rodrigo Santos de Faria
• Associated scholarship(s): 23/09267-1 - Housing and development in Latin America: Latin American networks through the Regional Courses of Rural Housing of CINVA, BP.TT; 23/09266-5 - Housing and regional development in Latin America, BP.TT; 23/06185-4 - Research Inter American Housing and Planning Center (CINVA). Data management and digitalization of collections., BP.TT

Abstract

This project proposes to study the debate on social housing in Latin America, based on the Inter American Housing and Planning Center - CINVA, an institution that was organized under the Technical Cooperation Program of the Organization of American States - OAS, in partnership with the Colombian government and the National University of Colombia, and operated between 1952 and 1972 in Bogotá. The courses and projects promoted by CINVA will be investigated, as well as the involvement of intellectuals and technicians from the participating countries. As a specific cut, the interval between 1958 and 1963 is adopted, when the agency expanded its activities through courses and scholarships, including the participation of Brazilian agents and institutions. During this period, transit and dialogue between Latin American agents linked to the institution also intensified. Although the starting point is the area of architecture and urbanism, recognizing the nature of the research object itself, methodological contributions from different disciplines should be mobilized, with emphasis on social history and the transnational perspective. The object, as well as the approach adopted, has a broad and transversal character, which can help to overcome more current analyses, generally limited to disciplines and national borders. The suggested emphasis still tends to support renewed approaches to housing and planning policies that consider interdisciplinarity and dialogue between Latin American countries. (AU)