Architecture and Industrialization: A Friendly Relationship

The incorporation of industrialization processes, as an option for building construction in Vene-zuela, has been part of our goal to enter into modernity. This ambition benefited, during the seventies, from an economic bonanza resulting from the rise of oil prices worldwide which, no doubt, had an impact on Venezuela. The practice of introducing rational constructive techniques was influenced by the Bauhaus experience and by other defenders of industrialization processes. Likewise, the post-war building experience was the source of inspiration for the development of Venezuelan projects, within a scope open to experimentation. Our objective here is to present some of the projects built in Venezuela, between 1970 and 1983, which made use of industrialization processes. From a tectonic analysis of the selected examples, we want to point out, the impact produced on the built object as a result of the incorporation of systematized building techniques.