SOCIAL ARCHITECTURE, FACED WITH THE CHALLENGE OF CONFRONTING THE HEALTH CRISIS

In these difficult times, where our health, safety and personal, family and work stability have been violated by a global pandemic, it is important that architecture offers solutions in line with the current situation and an intelligent response to the health challenge we face. Architecture is a discipline that is related to different areas of knowledge, but it is social architecture, based on humanism, and on the return to the intrinsic values of this discipline as a generator of habitable spaces for human beings, and its relationship with the environment, the object of study of this book. Social architecture brings together for its analysis, social sciences, politics, constructive innovation, but, above all, it reflects on the basic needs of society and aims to provide efficient solutions from the human point of view. The objective of social architecture is that through a broad study of the human needs of the people who make up cities and rural communities, sustainable architectural projects are offered, resulting in a better quality of life.