Migrant Housing. Architecture, Dwelling, Migration

Abstract

In the past few years, architectural research has started to explore the subject of migrants (Gola et al. 2019), following – with a certain delay – in the steps of other fields that inspired it, such as political science, sociology, and anthropology. If architects already were engaged with the migrant crisis, it seems that architectural history needed exterior stimulation in order to consider the subject. Cleverly relying on the tools of various disciplines (ethnography, anthropology, cultural studies), Mirjana Lozanovska’s Migrant Housing attempts to fill the existing gap in architectural historiography by forging both specific tools and a specific discourse. The author approaches migration as a significant concept for reframing the understanding of architecture in relationship to inhabiting. She does so not only as an architectural historian able to endorse the methodology of related fields, D O I: 10 .1 08 0/ 17 40 63 15 .2 02 0. 19 54 40 0 HOME CULTURES VOLUME 17, ISSUE 3 PP 227–232 REPRINTS AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE PUBLISHERS PHOTOCOPYING PERMITTED BY LICENSE ONLY © 2021 INFORMA UK LIMITED, TRADING AS TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP. .