HABITAR EN LOS MEDIOS.

Social housing asa paradigm of Modernity has been widely released In periodicals of twentieth century. Urban studies, typologies and formal proposals of Modern Movement were legitimated by them. Moreover, Latin-America has been propitious for the development of large social housing ensembles from the beginning of the second half of the century. Thus, this paper focuses on a particular case in the continent, Mexican social housing, and does it through its reflection on the media at the time of its construction. For a few years, magnificent dwelling units filled the pages of foreign magazines during a period (1950-1968) of huge international diffusion concerning Mexican architecture in no Latin-American periodicals. So certifying to world that one of the main requests of the moment, social housing, could be attending by Mexican government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]