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This book has a premise in its title: small-scale works of architecture synthetically present broader and more essential searches in the trajectories of their respective designers. With this working hypothesis in mind, three contemporary Colombian buildings of small format were selected and analyzed: the Pabellón del Café in the Museo Nacional de Colombia (Leonardo Álvarez y Ricardo Cruz), el centro de desarrollo infantil la Leroteca (Gloria Serna) and the Café del Bosque in the Jardín Botánico de Medellín (Ana Elvira Vélez and Lorenzo Castro). Each analysis is accompanied by interviews with the architects, photographs, plans of the buildings and analytical and conceptual graphics. In addition, it delves into the variables associated with place, activity and tectonics and announces some hypotheses that may be useful for students, designers and researchers of architecture.