Las casas prefabricadas de las fincas cafetaleras del Soconusco, México

Abstract

The prefabricated houses built by companies in the USA, between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reached the Mexican Soconusco (located in the state of Chiapas) with the migration of German-Guatemalan families who had come to establish coffee plantations dedicated to the production of washed coffee destined for world export. This text investigates the origin of these prefabricated houses, the reasons for their acquisition, while at the same time documenting construction of two houses built by this method and subsequent assembly on site.