This is the new condensed edition that Villegas Editores offers of the monumental work Arquitectura de la colonización antioqueña by Néstor Tobón Botero, originally published in the eighties.Without losing its freshness, and preserving intact its reason and meaning, this version summarizes the content of the five volumes that make up the original work, as well as the images and illustrations that accompany the presentation of the 40 selected towns, described and analyzed by the author due to their importance in representative works.Thanks to the publication of the original work, many buildings have been saved from the demolishing progress, being considered a fundamental part of the national heritage.It is a wonderful journey through the towns of that immemorial territory of Gran Antioquia, today also home to Caldas, Quindío, and Risaralda — whose expansion reached the north of Valle and Tolima — which reveals to us, throughout its itinerary, the concept of life, family, and work of its hardy inhabitants.This architecture, undoubtedly the most authentic in the country, takes advantage of the elements that the environment and climate provide, while projecting to the maximum the artisanal imagination that delights in wood, clay, and color.The double-story houses, cobbled patios, exterior railings, wooden latticework, and the abundant presence of flowers are some of the indispensable features of these constructions, many of them built on hillside terrain.We trust that this edition will be an encouragement for new readers to approach an episode of our national history that, through its ways of living, reveals unknown facets of our development.