In order to dispel the misperception that the rural landscape exhibits less change than urban centers, specific evidence is presented from part of a larger architectural and ethnographic survey. The focus, here, is on the physical needs and personal desires of two related households in one village. The author of this paper had a rare opportunity to follow in the footsteps of a geographer and ethnographer who worked as part of a central Anatolian archaeological excavation between 1927-29 and 1930-32. John Morrison eventually developed his studies based on the adjacent village, Alisar, and focused on one prominent family within. His dissertation was published in 1939, and in the 1960’s he returned to meet the descendants of the family and to reconsider the constancies and changes. I worked as architect and photographer on the same excavation site newly reopened in 1993 and commenced my own architectural and ethnographic study from 1998-2008 including Alisar and other nearby settlements. Still prominent are the descendants of the Alisar Aga, who are the focus of this paper. This work takes place in Yozgat province, a portion of Anatolia often overlooked today. There, I am able to gauge change as a result of how regional economic and personal needs are affected by infrastructure modernization and global issues, rather than touristic or other national developmental pressures. A certain constancy of form and use still exists yet there has been rapid change in the last decade. The families featured, live on and around the same original parcel but have compartmentalized and redeveloped it to allow for a multitude of private as well as more public uses. Part of the original Aga homestead documented in the ‘30’s existed until seven years ago. Visual slide overlays or drawings, augmented by photographs and interviews will show how the land and domestic life has been transformed. With these I compare and judge the rate of change over time and highlight the push and pull between remaining socio-cultural customs and norms and the shapes, forms and spaces they take place in. I ask how these changes have not only marked the landscape but also altered the identities of the people. The nature and prevalence of architectural discontinuity can now be described as a heterogeneous condition. This “hybridized” existence suggests a new dynamic vernacular seen and felt though the various built assemblages.