Barbados Heritage Architecture
A House as Metaphor for Barbados. Barbados itself is a goods house of sorts-- a little island that declined to stay where the world attempted to put it. It got its identity and moved it through centuries of turmoil:
• Amerindian origins
• English colonial guideline
• African survival and reinvention
• The plantation era
• Emancipation.
• Migration.
• Education.
• Independence.
• Republic.
At every turn, the island adapted without losing itself. That is the goods house spirit.
Mobility without uprooting.
Strength without rigidity.
Identity that travels but does not fade.
Originated from the True Story: Rogues in Paradise.
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