Description:
Migrant Housing examines the house as the architectural construct in the processes of migration. Houses are pivotal to any migration story, with studies showing that migrant communities' participation in the adaptation, extension or building of houses provides symbolic materiality of belonging.
Review Quotes:
"Tracing the post war emigration of unprivileged migrants to affluent economies, Lozanovska's Migrant Housing expertly uncovers human networks and material conditions otherwise neglected in architectural studies, powerfully demonstrating the built environment's capacity for recording and representing the migrant condition. Her captivating metaphor of the 'twin house', imagined, created and adapted in sending as well as recipient sites conjures a transcultural poetic across national borders that emerges as equally viable and intellectually stimulating as other situated representations of home or dwelling."
Anoma Pieris, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Two distant places -- the village of Zavoj (Republic of Macedonia) and the suburbs of Melbourne (Australia) -- are tied together through the will, aspiration and luck of migration. As ties between them thicken and thin over time, the homes and neighbourhoods in each place expand and contract. Migrant Housing builds a compelling account of this unlikely reciprocity, and weaves around it a rich and far-reaching set of reflections on migration and its formative role in shaping contemporary cities".
Stephen Cairns, editor of Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy (Routledge 2004), Singapore