Theme Journal – What is Interiors? In his 1994 book, What is Architecture? An Essay on Landscapes, Buildings, and Machines, Paul Shepheard draws a distinction between the questions ‘What is Architecture?’ and ‘What Should Architecture Be?’ Through this slight but meaningful adjustment, he tries to get underneath the seemingly distinct categories that define the discipline such as history, design, research, and materials, opening up in this way a discussion of how these categorizations emerged in the first place. What are the underlying conditions, events, and questions that enabled their formation? Resisting singular answers such questioning instead prompts a discourse that expands disciplinary knowledge. The title of the journal, Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture situates interiors vis-a-vis a triad of terms that hold multiple connotations, suggesting a range of possible relationships that shape our intellectual understanding of interiors. This special theme issue seeks to question presumed disciplinary frameworks, much like Shepeard did, in order to define critical trajectories for new interiors scholarship and practice.

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什么是内饰？一篇关于衬里、隐藏和做标记的文章

主题杂志——什么是室内设计？在他 1994 年的书《什么是建筑？在一篇关于景观、建筑和机器的论文中，保罗·谢泼德区分了“什么是建筑？”这两个问题。和“建筑应该是什么？” 通过这种轻微但有意义的调整，他试图深入了解定义学科的看似不同的类别，如历史、设计、研究和材料，以这种方式展开对这些类别最初是如何出现的讨论。促成它们形成的潜在条件、事件和问题是什么？抵制这种质疑的单一答案反而会引发一种扩展学科知识的话语。该杂志的标题，室内设计：设计/建筑/文化将室内设计置于具有多重内涵的三个术语之间，提出了一系列可能的关系，这些关系塑造了我们对室内设计的智力理解。这个特殊的主题问题试图质疑假定的学科框架，就像 Shepeard 所做的那样，以便为新的室内设计学术和实践定义关键轨迹。