The Modern Popular Dwelling in Guadalajara. Permanencies and Transformations.

Abstract

Between 1947 and 1954 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, two programs were estab- lished to try to correct the housing shortage for workers. The rst one was the Patronato de la Habitación Popular and the second one was Pensiones del Estado de Jalisco. These two organisms proposed their architectural design projects both from a modern vision and a localist one that helped to con gure the tapatía capital. This article reviews both institutions’ rst projects from the analysis of the project point of view, to nd similarities and divergences between them. The terms “permanencies and transformations” respond to the architectural ideas that remain and that have been trans- formed in both projects to adapt to the present. In addition to this, the article intends to put value on these not so well-known projects in which architects such as Ignacio Diaz Morales and José Villagrán García collaborated.