Vol. 3 No. 1 (2010)

After some time and a lot of effort, INIFAUA managed to publish this issue of the magazine "Investigaciones en Ciudad y Arquitectura" with the participation of foreign teachers from different countries and architecture schools. This number and the three subsequent ones are carried out culminating the management of the Dean of the FAUA Mag. Arq. Luis Delgado Galimberti, in them articles are presented whose central focus revolves around the theme of the teaching of architecture that gave rise to the International Congress " 100 Years of Teaching in Architecture" organized by INIFAUA in July 2011 with the participation of prominent teachers and researchers from renowned architecture schools in Latin America and countries such as Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom.

We are honored to have an article by the renowned Dr. Prof. José Ignacio López Soria, DHCausa of the National University of Engineering, who develops profound philosophical reflections on the meaning of architecture, living and building. In the same way, Dr. David Mc Clean from Scotland, Director of the School of Architecture School The Scott Sutherland School of Architecture & Built Environment of The Robert Gordon University participates, who has an article with the backdrop of the professional context in the United Kingdom characterized by a rapid evolution. Professor Mc Clean analyzes the landscape of contemporary architecture teaching in that country, concentrating on some factors that are the primary agents of reassessment and change in this 21st century and that have international relevance.
The third article is authored by three architects who make up the teaching team of the Introduction to Architecture Workshop of the Department of Architecture, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María de Chile. They are Raúl Solis F. architect PUCV; Marion Koch, Dipl. Ing. Arch. UdK, Berlin, Magister UdK, Berlin; Michele Berho M., architect UTFSM, Magister Università degli Studi di Ferrara. His article, entitled "The modular system as a learning tool", presents us with an interesting methodology for teaching design at the initial training level of the architect's career. They conceive this initial phase as a fundamental instance in the acquisition of the theoretical conception of the career, as a moment of initiation to the logic and thought used in the training of students, which at the same time must respond to the demands of this new contemporary environment. .
The fourth article is from Mg. Arch. Patricio Mullins and Arch. Mag. Viviana Colautti, from Argentina, professors at the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of Córdoba, present us with an investigation on the teaching of architecture in a Latin American context, its particularities and challenges.
The fifth article is authored by the Brazilian professors, Dr. Arg. Mário de Oliveira Saleiro from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism of UFRRJ; and Dr. Arch. Mauro César de Oliveira Santos from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro. They present us in the article "Project for Social Interest Housing" the results obtained in the elective subject called offered to students by the DPA/FAU/UFRI, with the aim of training professionals to work with architecture projects of social interest. His reflections have to do with cultural identity, the search for the spirit of the place and the meaning that the inhabitants themselves attribute to housing in a Latin American context with great urban transformations such as the city of Rio de Janeiro.