Vernacular Pueblerino House, Luquillo

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Archivo de Arquitectura y Construcción de la Universidad de Puerto Rico > Colección Carol F. Jopling > Caja 1 -Fotografías

Luquillo

1978 o 1979

The title, date, and address were provided by the Architecture and Construction Archive of the University of Puerto Rico (AACUPR). On the back of the image there are handwritten notes that read: "Fig. 62, CAJ|0034|F0001". There are repeated photos in the collection because they document other formats created for the project. Examples: 35mm negatives, color, black and white, instant photos, photos that were brightened or with contrast.

On Florida Street #107 in Luquillo, an anthropological survey is underway. A woman engages in a dialogue with a man, delving into the intricacies of lived experiences and architectural narratives. The figures stand on the porch of a wooden structure, which epitomizes the Pueblerino House. The Pueblerino style is a vernacular form of bottom-up architecture that could be thought of as the inheritor of the bohío – an Indigenous form of knowledge that challenges colonial impositions. The camera, set at a distance from the scene, captures the house and the interview. It also records a contemplative figure, an old man on the porch, who seems to embody in his stance the cultural introspection required to take in the temporal and social complexity of the scene. A Pueblerino House juxtaposed against a 1970s sports car trunk, tradition and change coalesce, encapsulating a narrative of decolonial resilience and adaptation in the coloniality of late capitalism.

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