The present dissertation aims a cosmological and constructive investigation of the kayapó housing. A subject which will treat the problem occurred after an interethnic construction project on a Kayapó territory. Based on the study of this special case, and its objective to build a house, it will be observed the encounter of architecture, the White one and the Mebêngôrke one, in search of what it would be the Kayapó architectural process. Thus, based on cross-information obtained in Architecture and Anthropology bibliography, I intend to make comprehensible this type of habitation as a result of constructing as well as daily practices, which concern values and perceptions attached to the above-mentioned civilization. Beforehand occurrences hat will provide this dissertation as a guideline to this type of houses as a third skin, an inhabitable structure, a body built by its inhabitants. The goal of this dissertation, therefore, is to demonstrate the process of execution of the kikré - kayapó houses - and the living together in their interior, underlining the importance of approaching Architecture and Anthropology, as well as to develop considerations from the architectural point of view about the indigenous construction and the effects of the historical encounters between the national society and the Indian communities.