This book shows a series of approaches related to architecture and daily life in Mexico from various perspectives, articulating both public and private space from their social to intimate qualities, thus generating a very dynamic sequence where the common thread revolves around habitability, memory, adaptability and resilience, as a result of temporal, spatial, functional, aesthetic and technological processes that affect the construction of habits, customs and values that define appropriations and lifestyles. The contributions shown introduce us to reflections on habitability and the role of architecture as a social builder and cultural disseminator; seeing its spectrum of application in historical themes related to lake life in the Basin of Mexico in the New Spain era; habitability of public and private space in a mining center: Zacatecas in the 18th century; in the modernization of...read more