ABSTRACT
This chapter explores an alternative roadmap for architectural practice at large. Architects, architectural historians, and photographers for architectural work tend to view and represent buildings as pristine, untouched by any real human interaction. Interior architecture could apply and appropriate the techniques used in art, such as the mentioned collage, bricolage, montage, pastiche, and assemblage, as well as other more human- and environment-centered approaches. Interior architecture must break away from the frameworks of conventional architectural history and theory and develop its own conceptual tools that can reshape architecture as well. Appropriation in a lexicon for interior architecture has the same potential, to be an active, subjective, and motivated strategy that emphasizes movement rather than stasis. The architect can no longer simply represent the body and soul of a building, rather the forms and spaces accumulate meanings through years of appropriation and acts of living.
