ABSTRACT
Imagine a rendering of a boundless interior, presumably infinite, built of modular systems but unencumbered by the brute rectilinearity of modernist architecture. Interior landscapes, to Piranesi, were the connection between these seemingly infinite interiors and the exterior world just beyond. Interior, depicted here, is a filtered connection to exterior conditions. Interior landscape is the conflation of the natural and artificial. Interior landscape challenges the conventional interior. Theorizing a connection between architecture and landscape was similarly important during the Modern Movement, exemplified through one of Le Corbusier's five points of architecture of 1927: a call for the roof garden. The interior landscape is not only productive but is based on a close reading of context, which could include issues as far ranging as native plant species to the dominant social activities occurring in a particular place. The landscape interior, like the negative space in the maps of Giambattista Nolli, are strategically fluid connections between interior and exterior.
