ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores interior architecture and margins between architecture and interior design. As a conceptual and methodological design philosophy, interior architecture fosters new potential for spatial networks, fields, systems, and gradients to be investigated, represented, constructed, and deployed. Confronting deeply held expectations for interiors, the discipline gives resistance to normative practices by casting a lens on overlooked opportunities for spatial design. Advocates of interior architecture often confront pointed questions which seem defensive rather than constructive and inclusive. Expanded engagement with adaptive reuse, historic preservation, resource remobilization, ecology, digital fabrication, and speculation has generated rich streams of research in interior architecture programs worldwide. The agency of interior architecture loops back into the academy to challenge how we teach the next generation a broader knowledge base which supports higher levels of expertise in spatial design.
