Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (Routledge Research in Architecture)

By: Mirjana Lozanovska

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Synopsis: Migrant Housing, the latest book by author Mirjana Lozanovska, examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Housing is pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant participation in the adaptation or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging and the platform for agency and productivity in the broader context of the immigrant city. Migration also disrupts the cohesion of everyday dwelling and homeland integral to housing, and the book examines this displacement of dwelling and its effect on migrant housing. This timely volume investigates the poetic and political resonance between migration and architecture, challenging the idea of the ‘house’ as a singular theoretical construct. Divided into three parts, Histories and theories of post-war migrant housing, House/home and Mapping migrant spaces of home, it draws on data studies from Australia and Macedonia, with literature from Canada, Sweden and Germany, to uncover the effects of unprivileged post-war migration in the late twentieth century on the house as architectural and normative model, and from this perspective negotiates the disciplinary boundaries of architecture.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781351330138
Related ISBNs:: 9780203701300, 9781138574090, 9781138574090, 9780367524982, 9780367524982
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 03/23/20
Copyrighted By:: Mirjana Lozanovska
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Home and Garden
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.