ABSTRACT

The Interior Architecture Theory Reader presents a global compilation that collectively and specifically defines interior architecture. Diverse views and comparative resources for interior architecture students, educators, scholars, and practitioners are needed to develop a proper canon for this young discipline. As a theoretical survey of interior architecture, the book examines theory, history, and production to embrace a full range of interior identities in architecture, interior design, digital fabrication, and spatial installation. Authored by leading educators, theorists, and practitioners, fifty chapters refine and expand the discourse surrounding interior architecture.

part one|39 pages

Histories

chapter 1|9 pages

(Re)constructing histories

A brief historiography of interior architecture

chapter 2|7 pages

A history of style and the modern interior

From Alois Riegl to Colin Rowe

chapter 3|9 pages

Quadrature

The joining of truth and illusion in the interior architecture of Andrea Pozzo

chapter 4|7 pages

Spatial therapies

Interior architecture as a tool for the past, present, and future

chapter 5|5 pages

Inside out

part two|48 pages

Territories

chapter 6|10 pages

Symbiotic spaces

Decolonizing identity in the spatial design of the Museum of Macau

chapter 7|6 pages

Shape shifting

Interior architecture and dynamic design

chapter 8|8 pages

Politicizing the interior

chapter 9|7 pages

Fabricating interiority

chapter 10|8 pages

Territory and inhabitation

chapter 11|7 pages

Swimming upstream

Repositioning authorship and expanding the agency of the architect

part three|62 pages

Spatialities

chapter 12|7 pages

Inside looking in

The prospect of the aspect

chapter 13|9 pages

The waiting room

Transitional space and transitional drawing

chapter 14|9 pages

Spatial seductions

The everyday interiorities of Marcel Duchamp, Edward Kienholz, and Pepón Osorio

chapter 15|9 pages

Inside the prefab house

chapter 16|7 pages

Oceanic interiorities

chapter 17|13 pages

Technologies

The spatial agency of digital praxis

chapter 18|6 pages

Transforming interior volumes

Volume + surface + mass

part four|61 pages

Sensorialities

chapter 22|8 pages

Lines of Enquiry

Drawing out Sigmund Freud’s study and consulting room

chapter 23|9 pages

On technological limits

chapter 25|10 pages

Touch, taste, smell

Fostering museum visitor engagement with multisensory spaces

part five|40 pages

Temporalities

chapter 27|10 pages

Toward the immaterial interior

chapter 28|8 pages

Time travel

Interior architecture and the exhibition space

chapter 29|11 pages

Productions

Spatial practices, processes, and effects

part six|35 pages

Materialities

chapter 30|8 pages

“Living” rooms

The hypernaturalization of the interior

chapter 31|11 pages

Internal disconnect

Material memory in the John Portman originals

chapter 32|6 pages

Inside-out and outside-in

The envelope and the search for a heterogeneous interiority

chapter 33|8 pages

Measuring the human dimension

Domestic space, materiality, and making in Japan

part seven|52 pages

Occupancies

chapter 34|9 pages

To dwell means to leave traces

Modernism, mastery, and meaning in the house museums of Gaudí and Le Corbusier

chapter 35|10 pages

Event-space

A performance model for spatial design

chapter 37|9 pages

Topology and interiority

Folding space inside

chapter 38|7 pages

Architectural purgatory

The car, the garage, and the house

chapter 39|7 pages

Spacing and forming

A performative account of a design studio

part eight|54 pages

Appropriations

chapter 40|8 pages

Death of the architect

Appropriation and interior architecture

chapter 41|9 pages

The dialectics of appropriation

chapter 42|8 pages

Puzzle

chapter 43|8 pages

Metropolitan hybrids

Programming for a thriving urbanity

chapter 44|9 pages

Design activism

Commingling ethics of care and aesthetics

chapter 45|10 pages

Beyond the visible

Skillsets for future interior architecture practice

part nine|36 pages

Geographies

chapter 46|10 pages

Interiors as global constructs

Framing culture and design discourses in a world of movement

chapter 47|7 pages

Hearts and minds and dishwashers

chapter 48|8 pages

Public spheres

Hong Kong’s interior urbanism

chapter 49|9 pages

Altered (e)states

Architecture and its interiority

part ten|4 pages

Epilogue