The IAAL is an independent institution with alliances with the academic and professional sector, public and private, to develop an open teaching-learning process, in direct contact with the works, the protagonists and the offices. In habitat, architecture, urbanism, art and design, framed in our Latin American social and cultural context.
With international and national, and also with specific communities (neighbourhoods, civil associations, non-governmental organisations, etc.), it also seeks to make children and young people of all socioeconomic classes sensitive to the problems of habitat and architectural space, urban design, art and design.

Conducting events, congresses, forums, exhibitions, seminars, careers, conferences, consultations, visits and all kinds of professional and architectural meetings, architecture, urban planning, art and design.
Promote and publish bulletins, magazines and books related to the academic areas of the institution.

Teaching, visits, publications, congresses, forums, exhibitions, seminars, courses, conferences and consultancy.

• Youth
• Social Inclusion
• Slum Upgrading
• Reconstruction
• Planning and Design
• Governance
• Economy
• Capacity Development

• Informal Urbanism
• Urban Regeneration
• Safer Cities
• Urban Accessibility
• Urban Governance
• Urban Form