Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Modern History, Department of History and Art History,　Plymouth University, UK, where he teaches social and material culture approaches to architectural history. He previously taught history and cultural theory to architecture students at Plymouth University’s School of Architecture, Design and Environment. He has also taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Pennsylvania and St Andrews.Marcel Vellinga is Reader in Anthropology of Architecture and Director of the Place, Culture and Identity research group in the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. Holding a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands), his teaching and research is concerned with the anthropological study of architecture, vernacular architecture and architectural regeneration. His publications include Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World, with Paul Oliver (Routledge 2007); Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education, and Practice, with Lindsay Asquith (eds.)(Taylor and Francis 2006) and Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (KITLV Press 2004) and various journal articles. Marcel is a Director of the Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library.

"Architectural historians and other scholars should all find something of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended." - R. T. Clement,formerly, Northwestern University, in CHOICE"The cumulative effect of the deft editorial selections by Maudlin and Vellinga, only briefly alluded to here, is ultimately compelling in its totality, presenting a new, and vitally important, critical position that is long overdue." – Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, James Steele, University of Southern California

• Preface List of Captions Introduction Part 1: Occupations 1. The (In)complete Architecture of the Suburban House 2. House Behaviour in the Australian Suburb: Consumption, Migrants and Their Houses 3. Performing their Version of the House: Views on an Architectural Response to Autism 4. Transformation Unwanted! Heritage-making and its Effects in Le Corbusier’s Pessac Estate 5. A Progressive Attachment: Accommodating Growth and Change in Álvaro Siza’s Malagueira Neighbourhood Part 2: Appropriations 6. Becoming Visible: Transforming the Spaces of Apartheid South Africa 7. Simla or Shimla: The Indian Political Re-appropriation of Little England 8. Ideological Regeneration: The Cafesjian Centre for the Arts and the New Yerevan 9. The Winter of Discount Tents: Occupy London and the Improvised Dwelling as Protest 10. On the Origins of Hip Hop: Appropriation and Territorial Control of Urban Space Part 3: Interpretations 11. ‘Why does it never rain in the Architectural Review?’ Photography and the Everyday Life of Buildings 12. Scenarios ‘For poetry makes nothing happen’: Art and Architectonic Urban Experimentations 13. Doors Don’t Slam: Time-Based Architectural Representation 14. SE 11 [Re]generations 15. Between the Cloud and the Chasm: Architectural Journals, Waste Regimes and Economies of Attention Select Bibliography Index

Daniel Maudlin is Professor of Modern History, Department of History and Art History,　Plymouth University, UK, where he teaches social and material culture approaches to architectural history. He previously taught history and cultural theory to architecture students at Plymouth University’s School of Architecture, Design and Environment. He has also taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Pennsylvania and St Andrews.Marcel Vellinga is Reader in Anthropology of Architecture and Director of the Place, Culture and Identity research group in the School of Architecture, Oxford Brookes University. Holding a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Leiden University (the Netherlands), his teaching and research is concerned with the anthropological study of architecture, vernacular architecture and architectural regeneration. His publications include Atlas of Vernacular Architecture of the World, with Paul Oliver (Routledge 2007); Vernacular Architecture in the 21st Century: Theory, Education, and Practice, with Lindsay Asquith (eds.)(Taylor and Francis 2006) and Constituting Unity and Difference: Vernacular Architecture in a Minangkabau Village (KITLV Press 2004) and various journal articles. Marcel is a Director of the Paul Oliver Vernacular Architecture Library.

"Architectural historians and other scholars should all find something of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended." - R. T. Clement,formerly, Northwestern University, in CHOICE"The cumulative effect of the deft editorial selections by Maudlin and Vellinga, only briefly alluded to here, is ultimately compelling in its totality, presenting a new, and vitally important, critical position that is long overdue." – Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, James Steele, University of Southern California

• Preface List of Captions Introduction Part 1: Occupations 1. The (In)complete Architecture of the Suburban House 2. House Behaviour in the Australian Suburb: Consumption, Migrants and Their Houses 3. Performing their Version of the House: Views on an Architectural Response to Autism 4. Transformation Unwanted! Heritage-making and its Effects in Le Corbusier’s Pessac Estate 5. A Progressive Attachment: Accommodating Growth and Change in Álvaro Siza’s Malagueira Neighbourhood Part 2: Appropriations 6. Becoming Visible: Transforming the Spaces of Apartheid South Africa 7. Simla or Shimla: The Indian Political Re-appropriation of Little England 8. Ideological Regeneration: The Cafesjian Centre for the Arts and the New Yerevan 9. The Winter of Discount Tents: Occupy London and the Improvised Dwelling as Protest 10. On the Origins of Hip Hop: Appropriation and Territorial Control of Urban Space Part 3: Interpretations 11. ‘Why does it never rain in the Architectural Review?’ Photography and the Everyday Life of Buildings 12. Scenarios ‘For poetry makes nothing happen’: Art and Architectonic Urban Experimentations 13. Doors Don’t Slam: Time-Based Architectural Representation 14. SE 11 [Re]generations 15. Between the Cloud and the Chasm: Architectural Journals, Waste Regimes and Economies of Attention Select Bibliography Index