The present book is a compilation of research papers presented in the Primer Seminario sobre Vivienda Vernácula en el Sureste de México by members of the academic body "Estudios de Arquitectura" of the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, organizers of the event. The first seminar on vernacular domestic architecture in the southeast of Mexico was held on September 3-5, 2009 in the UABJO in the city of Oaxaca.