The articles in this issue of Buildings & Landscapes speak to topics, themes, and subjects that students of vernacular architecture and cultural landscapes hold dear. Our authors examine connections between vernacular architectures of place and migration and the ties of vernacular architecture to the role we play in both interpreting and preserving local monuments. They add to our knowledge of topics little studied in vernacular architecture, including contemporary housing vernaculars and historical industrial landscapes, and address subjects that we thought we knew inside out, such as urban slavery in the antebellum south. We are also very pleased to be able to publish in this issue articles and reviews written by both longstanding friends of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and scholars new to our organization and its publications. Recent legislation passed by the State of Arizona has once again propelled immigration to the foreground of the American consciousness. Immigration and its ties to (and effects on) place are familiar themes to the readers of this journal and its predecessor, Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture. Jim Buckley and Bill Littmann in the Viewpoint essay on Latino landscapes in the Central Valley of California, and Sarah Lopez in her article on the remittance house in rural Mexico, ask us to think about contemporary Mexican immigrants and migrants, which is not a community that we have featured much in our pages to this point. Buckley and Littmann highlight Parlier, the town inhabited by about 11,000 migrant farmworkers (an accurate count is difficult to achieve) that VAFers visited during the 2008 conference in Fresno. This essay, which asserts the importance of places like Parlier to the study of vernacular architecture, vividly contrasts the fecundity of the Central Valley and the wealth of agribusiness with the poverty of Latino immigrants in this community—one of the poorest in the Golden State. The authors place the varieties of housing in context as they help us understand the intersecting cultural landscapes of modern immigration (and migration), government-sponsored housing, and food production in the Central Valley of California. Sarah Lopez takes us to San Miguel Hidalgo, a village in Jalisco, Mexico, full of grand homes built by men (and some women) using wages earned in the United States. Lopez names these buildings “remittance houses” in reference to a widespread economic process, the remitting of wages across national borders, that enables some migrant workers to build dream houses in their hometowns. Despite the importance of transmitting funds to the transnational building economy, this topic has received almost no attention from scholars. By grounding her sophisticated theoretical analysis in fieldwork, Lopez shows us the importance of culture as well as economy in transnational building practice. The houses are built over time, using local and imported methods of construction and displaying a variety of styles and physical characteristics. The intent is not to realize economic gain on investment (although the monies transmitted are crucial to village economies) but rather to display architectural aspirations. The resulting house is in effect a form of cultural capital, acquired by living abroad. Not all dreams come true, or at least in the manner envisioned, as Lopez explains using a case study of the Robles family. Twelve children grow up in a two-room adobe home; two brothers renovate and enlarge this home, but their mother prefers to use her old kitchen and sleep in her old bedroom. A younger brother builds a new house for an imagined family that doesn’t show up; marta gutman and louis p . nelson

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本期《建筑物与景观》中的文章谈到了以白话建筑和文化景观的学生所珍视的主题，主题和主题。我们的作者研究了地方和迁徙的乡土建筑之间的联系，以及乡土建筑与我们在解释和保存当地古迹中所扮演的角色之间的联系。它们增加了我们对白话建筑学很少研究的主题的知识，包括当代房屋白话和历史工业景观，并解决了我们认为我们内在认识的主题，例如南部战前的城市奴隶制。我们也很高兴能够在本期中发表由白话建筑论坛的长期朋友和本组织及其出版物的新学者撰写的文章和评论。亚利桑那州最近通过的立法再次将移民推向了美国意识的前沿。移民及其与地方的联系（及其对地方的影响）是本杂志及其前身《白话建筑的观点》读者的熟悉主题。吉姆·巴克利（Jim Buckley）和比尔·利特曼（Bill Littmann）在关于加利福尼亚中央谷地拉美裔风景的观点文章中的观点，以及莎拉·洛佩兹（Sarah Lopez）在她关于墨西哥农村的汇款所的文章中，要求我们考虑一下当代墨西哥移民和移民，这不是一个社区到目前为止，我们已经在页面中重点介绍了许多内容。Buckley和Littmann强调了Parlier，该镇有约11,000名农民工居住（很难实现准确的数字），VAFers在2008年的弗雷斯诺会议上参观了该镇。这篇文章 它断言了Parlier之类的地方对民俗建筑研究的重要性，生动地将中央山谷的肥力和农业综合企业的财富与该社区的拉美裔移民的贫穷（金州最穷的一个）进行了对比。作者将房屋的各种类型放在背景中，以帮助我们了解加利福尼亚州中央山谷地区现代移民（和移民），政府资助的住房以及粮食生产等相互交织的文化景观。莎拉·洛佩兹（Sarah Lopez）带我们去了墨西哥哈利斯科州的圣米格尔·伊达尔戈（San Miguel Hidalgo）村庄，那里满是男人（和一些女人）用在美国赚来的工资建造的豪宅。洛佩兹（Lopez）将这些建筑物命名为“汇款房屋”，这是指广泛的经济流程，跨国界的工资汇兑，这使一些移民工人能够在自己的家乡建造梦想中的房子。尽管将资金转移到跨国建筑经济中非常重要，但这个话题几乎没有受到学者的关注。通过在野外工作中进行复杂的理论分析，洛佩兹向我们展示了文化和经济在跨国建筑实践中的重要性。这些房屋是使用当地和进口的建造方法，并随着时间的推移而建造的，并展现出各种风格和物理特征。目的不是实现投资的经济收益（尽管所转移的资金对乡村经济至关重要），而是展示建筑的愿望。由此产生的房屋实际上是一种文化资本，是通过在国外居住获得的。并非所有梦想都能实现，或者至少不是按照预期的方式实现，正如洛佩兹（Lopez）使用罗伯斯（Robles）家族的案例研究所解释的。十二个孩子在一个两居室的土坯房中长大；两个兄弟对房子进行了翻新和扩建，但他们的母亲更喜欢使用旧厨房并在旧卧室里睡觉。弟弟为一个没有出现的想象中的家庭建造了新房子。玛塔·古特曼和路易斯 纳尔逊