**1.1 Problem**

"If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, but if you kill a beautiful butterfly you are a bad guy. Morality has aesthetic criteria"

Frederich Nietzsche [3]

Throughout the history of mankind, there have been great cultures that have excelled in creating architectural works that endure to this day, and these works have been catalogued of great architectural value for multiple characteristics; for example, in the ancient and middle ages, the architectural works of relevance are found around the temples of the gods, creating monumental works as an icon of respect for the divinity whose architectural value was represented by the beauty of its columns, friezes, capitals, arches, lintels, etc., with philosophical, religious or social principles that were well founded in each period [4]. With the arrival of the Renaissance, in the modern age, the human being focuses his attention on man as the centre of the world; however, the architectural production continues to consider the design parameters of the preceding epochs, and the formal value was still manifested in the beauty and monumentality of its façades. With the rationalist vision and the first industrial revolution, the contemporary era began, considered a turning point in the history of mankind, because, despite achieving an indisputable technological and economic development, there was also a social gap between developed and developing countries, as well as the beginning of global warming due to the industrial use of coal. In the architectural field, the production of works and their aesthetic value are related to the use of the materials of the time and their monumentality is reduced to the scale of man. Currently, architectural production revolves around the capitalist system, and the architectural work is treated only as a good or a commercial service that generates profits, without considering the philosophical principles with which it was founded [5]; however with climate change, globalisation, technological development and

*Morphological Evolution of Single-Family Dwellings: A Prospective towards 2100 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108521*

economic and social inequality, makes us think that architecture is in an experimental stage trying to adapt and project itself into new futures, where the beauty and value of the architectural work should be studied with a multi-criteria vision. Therefore, this research addresses a historical analysis of the formal production of architecture and its projection into the future, with a view to finding methodological and design strategies based on prospective scenarios.
