Main entry:

Lozanovska, Mirjana, author.

Title & Author:

Migrant housing : architecture, dwelling, migration / Mirjana Lozanovska.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.

Description:

xv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

Routledge research in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Histories and theories of post-war migrant housing. Spatial enclaves and envelopes of identity -- Abjection, otherness, performativity -- Building the nation and the migrant enclave -- Part II: House/home. Diaspora aesthetics and the tell-tale details of architectural cultures -- The migrant house -- Dwelling after emigration -- Part III: Mapping migrant spaces of home. Maps, myths and origins -- The village as commemorative homeland -- Twin house.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9781138574090 hardcover
1138574090 hardcover
electronic publication
9781351330138
electronic book
9781351330145
Mobipocket electronic book
9781351330121
9780203701300

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Social aspects.
Immigrants Dwellings.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture.
Identité (Psychologie) en architecture.

Added entries:

Routledge research in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 304924
Call No.: BIB 250660
Status: Available