Is the migrant house in Australia an Australian vernacular architecture?
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Date
2013
Authors
Lozanovska, M
Levin, Iris
Gantala, M
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International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments
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Copyright © 2013 IASTE - International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
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IASTE - International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments.
Abstract
This report seeks to understand the meaning of the migrant house in Melbourne, Australia.
Following a discussion of the Australian vernacular house, it asks what it is that makes
the migrant house a unique category, different from other, nonmigrant houses in Australia.
Reporting on research on seventeen migrant houses in the suburbs of Melbourne, it
then shows how three architectural elements — the facade, the terrace, and the back yard
— differentiate these houses from other examples of the Australian vernacular. Finally, it
argues that, through their different “migrant aesthetics,” the three architectural elements
illustrate how socio-spatial features have facilitated and eased the adaptation of migrants to
life in Australia.
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Lozanovska, M., Levin, I., Gantala, M. V. (2013), "Is the migrant house in Australia an Australian vernacular architecture?" Traditional Settlement and Dwellings Review, XXIV:II, pp. 63-76.