This paper argues that the architectural typologies of the rural habitat have historical value and validity to understand the socio-territorial processes that make up the rurality scenario. These processes can be understood by recognizing the practices, knowledge and techniques of those who inhabit these territories. For the development of this article, we propose to problematize two situations in communities in the northwest of Córdoba (Argentina), on one hand, the way in which public policies, specifically housing policies, intervene in rurality, ignoring the ways of inhabiting this territory, and on the other hand, the link that this has with architectural rationality, from which spaces are designed that still reproduce foundations based on the universal patterns of western modernity (mainly urban, anthropocentric and colonial). The objective is to delve into these aspects in order t...

The persistent inequalities surrounding access and permanence of communities in the peasant rural habitat in northwestern Córdoba lead us to inquire about the different territorial transformations carried out by the State and the market which, in recent decades, have accentuated historical inequities. The meta-discourse of development permeates the definitions from which actions are deployed in the province of Córdoba; the production of space possesses singularities and historical processes, and its analysis allows us to note that dichotomous thinking, expressed in urban-rural, backwardness-progress, etc., pairs, configures the silencing of territorialized knowledge and forms of inhabiting adjusted to vernacular worldviews. To address these processes, we recognize different levels of analysis that we propose to order as macro and micro-political scales of the rural habitat. Although bo...