ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book addresses the Soane’s Museum and Freud’s interior in Vienna respectively, in relation to the ways interiors are shaped by and shape the imagination. It discusses ordering systems of classification as strategies of invention. Aarati Kanekar and Iris Lykourioti focusing on the exchange between architecture and the symbolic medium of poetry. Elke Couchez, Rajesh Heynickx, Yves Schoonjans, and Hanna Lewi discuss the transmission and acquisition of knowledge in architectural education and the heritage sector. Adam Sharr and James Brown focus on the difference between lived space and mediated spaces of appropriation. Sharr points to the political and economic powers of appropriating heritage in Gezi Park’s redevelopment proposal in Istanbul and Swissotel in Dresden, and of ‘high architecture’ in Crystals at CityCenter in Los Angeles.
