ABSTRACT
Interior architecture can achieve – and perhaps even exceed – the autonomy of "inside-from-out" inherent in monolithic premodern construction methods because current digitally fabricated work deploys the cutting, carving, folding, and stacking of a singular material rather than assemblies of multiple materials. Effectively, the discipline of interior architecture seeks to recapture the distinctions between inside and outside inherent in premodern architecture, but with modern technologies, and from a point of view that privileges interiority, developing discrete spatial experiences with unique identities from the inside out. The paradox for interior architecture is that the skyscraper both challenged and reinforced the discipline's nascent identity. As interior architecture has expanded venues for its expression, as well as technologies at the designer's disposal, its capacity to produce these singularities has increased, and its disciplinary position has intensified. The spaces between the ribs are equally important in establishing the distinctions between architecture and interior.
