Houses Transformed Prof Kay Cooksey

Houses Transformed Prof Kay CookseyOver the decades, there has been a world wide transformation of so called vernacular houses. Based on ethnographic accounts from different regions, Houses Transformed investigates the changing practices of building houses in a transnational context. It explores the intersection of house biographies and social change, the politics of housing design, the social fabrication of aspirational houses, the domestication of concrete and the intersection of

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