PREVI Lima y Elemental Chile. Lecciones aprendidas.

The paper deals with the results achieved in the evaluation of two housing projects developed as part of international design competitions, which constitute paradigmatic experiences in that field in Latin America: PREVI Lima (1965) and Elemental Chile (2002). The evaluation is part of a wider research trying to make recommendations to improve the design quality of the social housing in Bogotá, starting from the diagnosis of the current situation and the best of the national Colombian, the international experience in this field, as well as the presentation of two cases. A theoretical model elaborated in the research is taken as a basis to make a comparative evaluation of both examples to verify that they constitute important experiences from which is possible to learn, their achievements as well as from their failures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]