
The Architecture of Absence: Exploring the Phenomenon of Unoccupied OFW Homes in the Philippines
The Silent Witnesses of Sacrifice: OFW Homes and the Architecture of Absence Across the Philippine countryside, a peculiar and increasingly ubiquitous landscape unfolds: large, often unoccupied houses stand in stark contrast to the more modest dwellings that surround them. These are not the ancestral homes of the landed gentry, but rather, newly constructed edifices, testaments…