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...