Vernacular architecture in the lower Guayas River Basin: Urban and rural housing

Authors

  • Claudia María Peralta González Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil

Keywords:

Typology, wood, architectural heritage, vernacular housing, architectural identity

Abstract

This study attempts to explain the origin and most relevant characteristics of vernacular housing in the lower Guayas River Basin. Most of the existing buildings were built by craftsman in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, during the cocoa boom whose economic impact made it possible to introduce architectural improvements and changes that had been in development since colonial times and which soon became known as the traditional wooden architecture of the Ecuadorian coast.

Some of these buildings are still standing in both urban and rural areas, in spite of the indifference towards this type of architecture, whose contribution is still not fully recognized as part of Ecuador´s built heritage.

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Published

2014-12-13

How to Cite

Peralta González, C. M. (2014). Vernacular architecture in the lower Guayas River Basin: Urban and rural housing. ARQUITECTURAS DEL SUR, 32(46), 42–53. Retrieved from https://revistas.ubiobio.cl/index.php/AS/article/view/741

Issue

V.32, N.46 (Diciembre 2014): ARQUITECTURA VERNÁCULA

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