Las representaciones domésticas de la modernidad: paradigmas de la vivienda popular a mediados del siglo veinte en Argentina

Abstract

 In the 1930’s, in Argentina, housing models began to be developed by the State. These, called “social-interest houses”, were characterized by functional and stylistic codes of their own which exerted a high influence on the construction of the domestic paradigm of modernity. The guidelines applied in the production of these houses express the ways in which different social segments understand the relations between the private space, the social space and the representativeness of the forms. In this article the vision and practice of the State, by the specialized technician and the user, are analyzed to interpret the convergent universes in the material and symbolic form of these models.