ABSTRACT
Even if we see an image of an interior devoid of architecture, we know that there must be a building involved and are certain that a building existed before the interior. This chapter, “Productions, Articulations, and the Elusive,” challenges this assumption and examines the traditional role and relationship of interior design to the built environment using both conceptual, methodological, technical, and project-based examples. Reframing both the act of interior design and its potential location relative to architecture as both building and discipline, the qualities suggested by the contemporary concept of an autonomous interior begin to indicate ephemeral, softer, and affective relations to any context, regardless if it precedes or follows them. Ultimately, this essay explores the interior as having both objective and subjective potential, and expands its reading from the contingent or reliant, to include its capacity as an autonomous condition and practice.
