Modern architecture attributes in houses of the Loja city between 1964-1974

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of modern architecture in Loja to identify representative samples and objectively assess them from an aesthetic judgment and not only frame them in a certain time. This study focuses on a sample of houses that have not been intervened in Loja between 1964 and 1974, the methodology used is developed in four phases: 1. Contextualization of modern architecture, 2. Determination of assessment criteria for attributes of modern architecture (economy, rigor, precision, universality, and reversibility), 3. Identification and analysis of five houses, and 4. Synthesis of results. As a result of the study, it is presented the analysis and discussion regarding the attributes in samples of modern architecture in Loja which identify the specific features of this type of architecture and recognize that there is an adaptation of its characteristics to the local context; each sample was analyzed with criteria raised from the conceptual, functional, formal, and technological point of view that allow the objective recognition of the attributes which can be replicated in other contexts. Thus, it is concluded that the analyzed houses have attributes that define them as modern architecture and that the made adaptations respond to a formal construction that derives from the needs, construction systems, and materials of the time.