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Is the migrant house in Australia an Australian vernacular architecture?
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posted on 2013-01-01, 00:00 authored by Mirjana LozanovskaMirjana Lozanovska, I Levin, M GantalaThis 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 soda-spatial features have facilitated and eased the adaptation of migrants to life in Australia.
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Traditional dwellings and settlements reviewVolume
XXIVIssue
IIPagination
65 - 78Publisher
International Association for the Study of Traditional EnvironmentsLocation
Berkeley, Calif.ISSN
1050-2092Language
engPublication classification
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