Habitability, a basic premise for home design and its impact on the curricula of architecture schools

Abstract

The demand for housing in Mexico increases year after year, in which the architects have actively participated in its design and production. This study aims to investigate whether the architectural production generated by professionals graduated from the different three study plans of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas has had a greater impact on the resolution of the habitability of the houses. To resolve the above issues, we apply two data collection instruments that would measure such a situation to a representative sample of the three study plans. The results obtained show that regardless of the study plan, all the graduates demonstrated to have, in addition to knowledge, capacities and skills for the design of comfortable homes, the ability to solve the aspects of habitability in the home, which breaks the paradigm that previous plans were better than current ones. This also implies the recognition of the academic process that is followed in public higher education institutions versus private schools, which is not affected by this condition; as well as the fact that the new technologies that are currently used in all disciplines have not detracted from the abilities that an architect must have.