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The form+ group has as its main objectives the research into the origins and dissemination of modern architecture, as well as the study of those principles and projects that maintain a clear relevance to the contemporary world.

Since its foundation, the group has paid particular attention to Latin American countries, where modern architecture achieved significant practical development in all areas — from single-family and collective housing, to public buildings and spaces, and the complex structure of the city itself. Part of this heritage has disappeared or is at risk of doing so. To restore the continuity of this positive experience, the group recovers specific examples, materials, and original documents, organizes them, studies them, and disseminates them. The aim is for these exemplary models to regain their instrumental value in project theory and practical application, thereby contributing to the orderly construction of reality.

In the group’s research program there also appears a theoretical and critical perspective that involves studying in depth the links that modern architecture establishes with the tradition of objective forms and utilitarian objects — an etymological inquiry that grants greater universality to the undertaken task. This means opening up, at this stage, to the study of the entire experience of modern architecture, without restricting it to a single geographical area, and understanding it in its true anthropological dimension.

Keywords: form, modernity, objectivity, tradition, visuality, architectural projects, teaching innovation, architectural constructions, Latin America, Europe.