Abstract

MAGANA FAJARDO, Carolina; CONTRERAS PADILLA, Alejandra  and  GARCIA CASILLAS, Elisa M.. The hygiene concept in the Mexican Housing at the turn of the 19th to 20th Century, publishing or Architectural Theory?. An. Inst. Arte Am. Investig. Estét. Mario J. Buschiazzo [online]. 2023, vol.53, n.2, e008. ISSN 2362-2024.

In everyday life, personal hygiene habits, water management, overcrowded housing and garbage have been the main causes of diseases in the history of human beings. That is why the concern for hygiene in Mexican housing became the main axis between technological development, urban-architectural, interior and industrial designs from the second half of the 19th Century to the first half of the 20th Century. In this article it is suggested that the concepts proposed by the medical-sanitary theories of hygienic were the ones that fostered the transformations in housing, which nurtured the architectural theories, and from which the design proposals that promoted the ideas of modernity through newspapers and magazines came from.

Keywords : hygiene; housing hygiene; hygienic infrastructure; housing; México; 19th and 20th Centuries.

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