From House to Home

This book explains one of the contemporary attentions of the architects and sociologists, which is homemaking of culturally diverse groups. Homemaking is a process, which is created by residents through the understanding of material forms and belongings to represent and celebrate events and memories, throughout new structures and objects. Homemaking, as an important part of human life, also is influenced by residents' domestic traditions. On this point, several questions are discussed, partly related to understanding the meaning of home and partly aiming to discover the relation between homemaking and immigrants' previous home in their country of origin. In order to answer these questions, the present book examines immigrants' request to change different parts of their houses towards adapting to understand how their homemaking is affected by their domestic culture and memories of their house in their native country.