This architecture course focuses on teaching migration through the lens of the built environment. Throughout the course of the semester we interpreted architectural history and planning through the lens of migration's effect on the built environment. Some of the concepts we explored in the course were: assimilation, trans-nationalism, diaspora, spatial practices, ritual infrastructure, spatial hybrid, and urban design. After COVID-19, our class shifted to questioning how a global pandemic was affecting migrant workers globally.  

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Our final project was initially supposed to be a research paper that looked at a place in Austin that has a history of having a migration stream from one sending country. We were asked to choose a location in Austin, or a sending country, and research the historical context, material changes and evidence of that migration stream in Austin, and a deeper dive of the people and the influence. While some projects featured on this site reflect that avenue of research, other projects reflect an interest in our unraveling socio-political moment wrestling with the impacts of the pandemic. 

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This blog gives us the opportunity to display our work in the absence of being able to see each other in the same physical space. We hope these projects speak to the everyday lived experiences and struggles of migrants presently and historically and the quintessential impact of migration on histories of the built environment. 

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