Houses Transformed

Jonathan Alderman is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Amerindian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of St Andrews, and Associate Fellow at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London.

List of Figures



Introduction: Houses Transformed – Transforming Houses

Rosalie Stolz



Chapter 1. Anthropology and the Study of Architecture at a Time of Rapid Change

Marcel Vellinga



Chapter 2. Lives of the House: Tracing Kinship through the Biography of Houses in Norway

Simone Abram and Marianne Lien



Chapter 3. The ‘New London Vernacular’: Architecture and the Politics of Community-Building in London’s Olympic Park

Saffron Woodcraft



Chapter 4.The Changing Temporalities and Ecologies of House Production in an Age of Trans-localization: Instances in Kerala and West Bengal, India

Elisa T. Bertuzzo



Chapter 5. In Pursuit of a Modern Home: Shared Vernacular Temporalities and Modern Aspirations of the Nationals and Transnationals in Qatar

Gizem Kahraman Aksoy



Chapter 6. ‘There Are No Winds’: Sensory Dimensions of the Shifting Materiality of Houses and the Community of Sounds in Northern Laos

Rosalie Stolz



Chapter 7. ‘Pretty butToo Hot, It Smells Like Bat Urine’: Public Funded Housing for a Waorani Village in Ecuadorian Amazonia

Andrea Bravo Diaz



Chapter 8.The Social Creativity of Remittance Houses: Reconfiguring Space and Social Relations in Guatemala

Andrea Freddi



Chapter 9. Not Vernacular Enough: Dwellings of No Architectural Significance and the New Anthropology of Housing

Eli Elinoff



Chapter 10. Vernacular Adobe Houses and State Social Housing in Rural Andean Bolivia

Jonathan Alderman



Chapter 11. New Materials, Different Spatialities, Same Houses? Domestic Architectures and Techniques among Pastoralists Communities in the Andean Highlands (Jujuy, Argentina)

Julieta Barada and Jorge Tomasi



Afterword

Jonathan Alderman