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“Soft thick carpet under your feet”: The Indian eye on Victorian London’s homes Interiors Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Arup K. Chatterjee
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After İstanbul Hilton: Turkey’s local-global dichotomy in the 1950s interiors of Divan Hotel and Çınar Hotel Interiors Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Hande Atmaca Çetin,Funda Uz,Zeynep Tuna Ultav
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Building the sex dungeon: Gay leather culture and the development of spaces for recreational sex at home Interiors Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Tom Cubbin
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Inclined Planes and the Oblique Function as a Resistance to Gravity Interiors Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Esen Gökçe Özdamar
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The fragmented interior: decomposition of the interior of the Generale Bank and its afterlife Interiors Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Bie Plevoets
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Spatiality and materiality: the girl’s bedroom in fin-de-siècle advice literature Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Shu-chuan Yan
This essay examines late nineteenth-century advice literature, such as the magazines for young adults, domestic advice manuals, and home decoration books, to determine how guidelines about the spatial and material construction of a girl’s bedroom supported the idea of teen femininity in fin-de-siècle Britain. These primary sources of information, boosted by the rise of household art, offered an effective
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This is not a [bed]room Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Marta Silveira Peixoto,Angelica Paiva Ponzio
One of the commitments of modern architecture was to transform home living. Spaces were to be reviewed through new notions on use, fluidity, and transparency, often leading to formerly compartmentalized areas occupied by bulky furniture and pre-arranged compositions being opened up. In this way, some architects started experimenting with new arrangements, not only for single-family housing, but also
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On the Interstitial and the Waiting Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Jo Liekens
_room within this article is approached through projective architectural interpretations of the room type studiolo. The notion of the projective here refers to a projecting activity – of latent possibilities, of possible futures—through projects, regardless their scope and scale. The article builds on two architectural artifacts of our office STUDIOLO architectuur 1 that substantiated in an interweavement
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Being under, with THIS room Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Julieanna Preston
The live art performance Being Under Symphony was delivered as a keynote presentation at the 2019 Interior Design Educator’s Council’s annual conference held in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The drama of Being Under Symphony redirected long-revered conventions of learning about an interior as if it were a collection of merely functional materials and systems to being with an interior as a mutual
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A room of the mind: from the studiolo to the metaphysical room Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Jaime Ramos Alderete,Ana Isabel Santolaria Castellanos,Pablo Ramos Alderete
The aim of this article is to propose an approach to the “space of the mind” through the analysis of successive spaces built with scenographical techniques that can be found in some domestic rooms. Two rooms, conceived and built in Italy, separated from each other by half a millennium, were taken as a case study. These are the studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro and the Stanza Metafísica of Piero Fornasetti
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From ‘‘container’’ to ‘‘lifestyle:’’ Kazuyo Sejima, Sou Fujimoto and the destruction of the nuclear family box Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Cathelijne Nuijsink
After the Second World War, Japan fell under the spell of a post-war ideology that popularized an ideal middle-class nuclear family. Mainstream housing options responded to this ideology with the introduction of a typical floorplan that contained a hierarchy akin to the nuclear family and stressed the need for individuality with multiple private (bed)rooms. By the mid-1960s, this nLDK-model — a layout
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Salotto Buono: the “Art of Conservation” and the Permanence of an Italian Room Interiors Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Francesca Romana Forlini
The salotto buono is a typically Italian room that plays a central role in contemporary domesticity and epitomizes the permanence of traditional family structures within Italian society. This essay explores how this room, and the objects contained in it, defined and consolidated Italian middle-class identity, and how they subsequently had an impact on domestic practices and cultures. Interviews and
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The changing room: Towards an interior multiplicity Interiors Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Rana Abudayyeh
Rooms are the proto-spatial modules that define our engagements with space. They hold our intimate narratives whilst projecting our curated public images. Within their jurisdiction, we assume the persona of their typologies and act under the code of their determinants. However, the candour of this exchange is not all it promises to be, as it only works in the presence of various types of rooms in one
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The aesthetics of digital intimacy: Resisting Airbnb’s datafication of the interior Interiors Pub Date : 2021-08-20 Dave Loder
This article presents a practice-based research enquiry to investigate and develop the concept of digital intimacy. Contextualised by the Airbnb peer-to-peer accommodation sharing platform, this enquiry proposes the interior-as-image as located within the mediation of the ‘Instagram-able’, providing a distinct aesthetic category. Airbnb delivers an infrastructural condition, a global circulation system
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Isolation Room: Michael Parekowhai’s The Lighthouse: Tū Whenua-a Kura Interiors Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Rachel Carley
On Wednesday, March 25 at 11.59 pm, 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern placed Aotearoa (New Zealand) into lockdown to shelter citizens from the catastrophic impacts of the Covid-19 global pandemic. Entire households were placed in isolation, permitted only to travel locally to access food or medical supplies. The media messaging was resoundingly clear: stay at home. This contemporary context contributes
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Setting the dining room: a theatrical dialogue between Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre and Whistler’s Peacock Room Interiors Pub Date : 2021-06-21 Tara Chittenden
The typological and practical boundaries of what is, and what is not, “_ Room” remain fluid in the twenty-first century. As contemporary theatre has offered a renewed focus on spatial and material affordances, so it draws closer to rooms, inviting an explicit emphasis on the assemblages which position a staged encounter, be that in a private domestic dining room, its reassembly within a museum scenario
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Interiorist interventions and archival strategies: Contemporary terms for museums and creative practitioners Interiors Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Lorella Di Cintio
The contested interior space of the museum and its artifacts are receiving due attention. Museum objectors are altering content, examining unacknowledged assumptions and biases, and developing new ways of seeing and experiencing that will act as new models for critical, creative discourse. Museum objectors range from entire countries (notably Greece, which has been asking the British Museum to return
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Collecting fragility and time: A dialogue of decay and female spirituality Interiors Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Karen Lens,Koenraad Van Cleempoel
This is not a collection was the provocative title of an exhibition (2019) with religious objects in the repurposed Park Abbey in Leuven, Belgium. We were intrigued by a collection of relic holders with aged textile inside them. The gentle care for these fragile objects and their delicate and breakable holders are like metaphors for their changing meaning and interiorized expression. We noticed a similar
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Through the lens of the glass cabinet: entering the material realm of museum objects Interiors Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Ane Pilegaard
This article discusses questions of spatial configuration and display design in museums, and how this affects the way museum objects are perceived. Based on an in-depth analysis of the Glass Cabinet at Rosenborg Castle in Copenhagen, Denmark, the article explores how the glass items on display are seen not as singular objects, with a curated (hi)story to tell, but more as a collected mass of disparate
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The mirror and the crèche: techniques for building and collapsing the world Interiors Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Heather Scott Peterson
Abstract In 1833, Sir John Soane, the British architect and antiquarian, bequeathed his house-museum, containing over 3,000 inventoried artifacts, to the British nation by a private act of Parliament. A century and a half later, in 1978, the American architect and industrial designer Alexander Girard gifted his global collection of 106,000 folk art objects to the state of New Mexico; a bequest of such
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The mirror and the crèche: techniques for building and collapsing the world Interiors Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Heather Scott Peterson
Abstract In 1833, Sir John Soane, the British architect and antiquarian, bequeathed his house-museum, containing over 3,000 inventoried artifacts, to the British nation by a private act of Parliament. A century and a half later, in 1978, the American architect and industrial designer Alexander Girard gifted his global collection of 106,000 folk art objects to the state of New Mexico; a bequest of such
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Data as memory: Contemporary memory collection practices in extended interiors Interiors Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Sonya Grace Türkman
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Home no.7 (a sample of) Interiors Pub Date : 2020-11-19 Ersi Ioannidou
“Home” describes an intangible concept. It is the emotional and meaningful relationship between people and their familiar environment. In living conditions of individuation, temporariness and mobility, personal possessions gain utmost importance in the establishment of a sense of “home”. They become material icons of durability and continuity in everyday life which carry references to people, places
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Small objects as a transmitter of telling stories of belonging and migration Interiors Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Naomi Zouwer
My parents migrated to Australia in the late 50 s, my father and his family from The Netherlands and my mother and her family from Finland. Once here they recreated their interiors to feel like they were in their homelands. I grew up in these spaces and have inherited some of the objects that adorned them. The experience of these interiors contribute to this essay as a reflection on domestic spaces
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The things we keep – an ethnographic study of material possessions in New York City Interiors Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Sam Bennett
A home could be likened to a glimpse into our heads. The plaster and lath are the skin and bones, our skull of sorts, a container of all things, sitting, waiting to be observed. The things we keep silently, but visually tell a story of us. Is this why we keep them? So as not to erase our identity? This essay sets out to understand consumer culture through people’s most special things in their domestic
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Visual essay: recollections of an allegorist Interiors Pub Date : 2019-09-02 Remco Roes
This visual essay departs from an artistic practice and explores a number of collections, various spatial contexts they were sourced from and a retrospective exhibition that united them into one large installation. Through visual argumentation the essay sheds light on the way a series of objects and interior spaces interacted over a period of several years.
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Frederick Kiesler and virtual reality on the modernist stage and screen Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Laura McGuire
This essay examines the innovative film and theatrical spaces proposed and designed in the 1920s and 1930s by the Austrian-American architect and stage designer Frederick Kiesler, including the Optophon and the Film Arts Guild Cinema. Within a context in which both theatrical designers and science fiction authors postulated increasingly immersive entertainment environments, Kiesler’s designs brought
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Introduction Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Pat Kirkham, Sarah A. Lichtman
This special issue of Interiors: Stage and Screen focuses on interiors (very broadly defined) in both films and plays. It grew out of an initiative taken in late 2015 at Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, to help foster a greater degree of cross-pollination across the research, publishing, and teaching undertaken there by historians of design and historians of film and media, as well
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Tilly Losch: tracing histories through interiors and film Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Tag Gronberg
Tilly Losch is commemorated as an absent presence through two 1930s interiors commissioned by her then husband the art collector Edward James: Paul Nash’s design for a bathroom in James’s London town house and a patterned stair carpet ostensibly based on Losch’s wet footprints on leaving her bath. The Nash bathroom, no longer extant, has been recreated for exhibition purposes and the footprint carpet
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The Omega Workshops and the modern artistic interior on the British stage, 1914–1918, with special reference to The Wynmartens (1914) Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Ben Angwin
This essay examines a modern artistic interior created by The Omega Workshops Ltd. (1913–19), an artist-led coterie that focused on a particular type of “modern” artistic interior decoration, and the design of the individual items necessary to it, for the little-known play The Wynmartens, written by Richard Henry Powell (1884–1915) and opened on the British stage in May 1914. Newly “discovered” photographs
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The Diary of Anne Frank: staging the Secret Annex and designs for an adolescent interior Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Sarah A. Lichtman
This article focuses on the designs for and staging of the play The Diary of Anne Frank (1955), and considers the ways in which the sets of the Secret Annex both documented and transformed the hiding place to convey its isolation and confinement to the audience. It also explores how the decoration and furnishings of Anne’s recreated bedroom reflected broader postwar-era cultural messages about coming
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“I noticed that his attention was fixed upon my clock:” masculinity and the queer film interior Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Alice T. Friedman
Depression-era Hollywood’s on-screen representations of queer and gender-non-conforming characters went beyond costume, gesture, and plot lines to include interior décor and carefully-chosen objects as assembled and arranged by art directors and set decorators in service to character development and narrative richness. A close look at Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944) and at the visual codes surrounding
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Living in a modern way in The Moon is Blue (1953, Otto Preminger): mid-century modern architecture, interiors, and furniture Interiors Pub Date : 2019-05-04 Pat Kirkham
This article focuses on The Moon is Blue (1953, Otto Preminger), a light-hearted romantic comedy starring Maggie McNamara as an aspiring young actor, Patty O’Neill, and William Holden as architect Donald Gresham. The first Hollywood movie largely set inside a high-end Mid-Century Modern domestic interior, it features some top-quality machine mass-produced furniture by leading US designers and manufacturers
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Creating Interior Atmosphere: mise-en-scène and interior design Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 David Littlefield
This interesting and useful book, part of a series of visual arts textbooks by Bloomsbury, corrals a wide range of design tactics and strategies which affect the phenomenological condition of interior space. Through this book, Jean Whitehead attempts to deconstruct the ways in which interiors can “whisper softly in our ear, whispering suggestions, conjuring a mood, evoking emotions and responses..
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Thinking beyond dualities in public space: the unfolding of urban interiority as a set of interdisciplinary lenses Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Tine Poot, Els De Vos, Maarten Van Acker
In his reflection on the Inside the City interior educators conference (London, November, 2018), Andrew Stone acknowledged the growing confidence of interior designers in engaging with the city, which poses a natural conduit for the discipline’s inherent interdisciplinarity. Within this provocation, a central position is taken up by the concept of urban interiority. Breaking out of the confines of
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“A conscious memento”: The literary afterlives of Henry James’s Lamb House Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Ailsa Boyd
In 1896, the novelist Henry James became captivated by Lamb House, a Georgian, red brick house at the top of a cobbled street in Rye with a unique, bow-windowed “garden room.” Restoring and decorating it sympathetically, it became his main home for the rest of his life, a comfortable retreat where the observer of society could himself entertain guests. The house and garden feature in subsequent novels
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Prototyping process: interior architecture as a social agency Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Milagros Zingoni
How can education in interior architecture facilitate knowledge and experiences beyond the standard curriculum? Pause + Play was a design-build public installation, which was the result of a participatory collaboration in an interior architecture graduate program in the southwest United States. The collaboration included students from Arizona State University consisting of seven graduate students in
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Cities in Time: Temporary Urbanism and the Future of the City Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Lorella Di Cintio
As interior designers, the urban landscape can easily be considered an expansion of our discipline’s purview. For me, Toronto’s laneways, where rows of closed garage doors would open up during warmer months, offered my first vivid link of the interior with urban dynamism. The sweet aromas from summer kitchens and the fall preserving rituals taking place in these spaces added to the dynamic nature of
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Back to basics in interiors education: The morphology of interior space Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Marjan Michels, Eva Storgaard, Inge Somers
Today, interior education is characterized by many and variegated approaches and interpretations. Worldwide it is a field in rapid transformation and in search of identity based upon vivid explorations of its theoretical underpinnings. Triggered by the rich perspectives offered within academia, and at the same observing an increased distance towards the everyday, material interior and its basic elements
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In a Room Together Interiors Pub Date : 2018-09-02 Michael Jefferson
At first glance, Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation asks visitors to understand that a game is afoot. Arrayed along the gallery walls are a series of square-framed black and white images, equally dimensioned and spaced evenly. Despite their cohesiveness, the pieces themselves demonstrate a remarkable diversity that produces a constant flicker between the exhibition’s
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Learning from… (or “the need for queer pedagogies of space”) Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Olivier Vallerand
Despite its emergence in architectural discussions in the early 1990s, more than 25 years later, the idea of queerness has yet to fully transform the way we practice, teach or even experience spatial design. While obviously focused on how gender and sexuality play a role in the building of personal and collective identifications, queer theory becomes much more interesting when used to think more broadly
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Slack space: Braiding disciplines Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Colin Priest
The nature of interdisciplinary interior and spatial practice is explored through a series of public projects associated with rope by Low-Tech/High-Tech Community of Practice from the University of the Arts London. Referencing Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger’s theories around situated learning, and Barthes definition of interdisciplinary working, early ice-breaker activities and public actions of making
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Archive Agency Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Alex Augusto Suárez
The essay, Archive Agency asserts a new “scenic” by examining the concept of the productive as a fertile and evolutionary space across multiple didactic environments. Technology and the Internet shift and guide our gaze, recalibrating familiar regimes. From 19th century “prefilmic” acts of virtual travel via a room to an imaginative elsewhere, to the implications of modern post-disciplinary educational
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Introduction Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Lois Weinthal, Igor Siddiqui, Ro Spankie
As academic subject matter, interiors permeate the curricula of multiple interrelated disciplines that together provide the educational foundation for an expanded range of creative and professional practices. Such interiors-oriented academic programs cut across fields like architecture, design, and art and are as diverse as the types of practices that shape contemporary interiors spatially and discursively
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FELT material and experience: A student project in the field Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Kathryn Walter
Felt is an age-old material that has been met with renewed interest in the fields of architecture and interior design due to its rich aesthetic and material properties with its unique look, and practical characteristics including tactility and structure, and ability to resist fire and absorb sound. A quiet study room in the library at Ryerson University in Toronto, presented an opportune site for a
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Surface: boundary conditions, spatial interactions, and occupying time Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Tijen Roshko
Abstract As science and technology continue to accelerate and change our society, disciplinary core beliefs are also changing, leading to an erosion of the boundaries between exterior and interior and a diminishing of the distinction between object and subject. In this technology driven era, where interiors are exclusively conceived and produced digitally, surfaces have gained a particularly prominent
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Commoning Interior Design Pedagogy Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Olivia Hamilton
This paper is concerned with articulating the value of bringing commoning and spatial design pedagogy together. Developing a four-day intensive for the 130 first year interior design students to be held off-campus in the first two weeks of the students’ education became a space to explore this proposition. The purpose of the intensive was to encourage a supportive and robust student culture in and
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Learning from bathhouses Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Nerea Feliz
Sloterdijk’s view of the world as a “grand interior” responds to the progressive interiorization of the environment “where both culture, and even nature, have increasingly become indoor affairs.”1 A junior design studio offered at the University of Texas at Austin (Fall 2016 and 2017) sought to examine interior space as an autonomous microcosm, both in meteorological and atmospheric terms. Students
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Printing Architecture Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Christina Nan
Over the past decade, architecture as well as other affiliated fields have been exposed to several waves of almost techno-fetishistic exuberance related to emerging technologies. One of these waves has been and still is additive manufacturing. The omnipresence of this topic has almost caused a 3D printing fatigue, as repetitiveness—in terms of both material and form aesthetics— and design related self-referencing
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Interiors of pedagogy Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Toni Kauppila
In this text, I have elaborated my thoughts on some of the contemporary challenges in higher education and how they relate to teaching and learning within the discipline of the interiors. I see the field of interiors deeply rooted in multisensory ways of knowing. The predominant condition of the discipline in my view is a certain persistence towards ambiguity, towards a professional and creative field
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Identities: A Royal College of Art Project Interiors Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Ian Higgins
This article describes a first-year project from the Master of Arts Interior Design programme at the Royal College of Art in London. The ‘Identities’ project is formulated to ensure that students consider the material qualities of their work and develop design proposals that resolve a small scale interior design problem in finite detail. To achieve this a project structure has been developed where
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Introduction Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Annie Chu
A few people in this generation of architects and designers may recall the knell of post modernism precipitated by the Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition at MoMA in 1988. The cohort of design students educated before that time were introduced to topics in humanistic design by their instructors who were educated in the 1960s. Those instructors were in turn influenced by the countercultural Whole
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Visceral realities: The reconstruction of historic space Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Annie Coggan
This paper examines unconventional interiors that “over imagine” the narrative of historic space. Reconstructions test not only historic accuracies but question spatial concerns and resulting atmosphere. The spaces to be interrogated are committed to providing a visceral experience whether or not they possess the rigors of taste, design, and scholarship. Examining spaces that reconstruct history is
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“Breathtakingly ugly”: advertising taste in 1970s domestic interiors Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Sylvia Faichney
Frequently featuring avocado tapered curtains and vinyl wallpaper, the domestic interiors of the 1970s are now considered remnants of ?the decade that taste forgot.? This paper beckons to ask under what conditions domestic architectural taste was rendered within this abundantly decorated era. An interdisciplinary study of design, history, and advertising is enabled through a semiotic reading of an
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Labor Visible and Invisible Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Tsz Yan Ng
Abstract Labor Visible and Invisible examines the process of concrete casting to discuss the invisible types of labor involved in the making of the formwork - something that is designed and constructed but invisible being removed from the final cast artifact, yet visible by virtue of having shaped, with fidelity in its negative form, the design intentions of the positive cast within it. Two concrete
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Faux real Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Corso Greg, Hunker Molly
From “kitsch” to “faux”, artificiality in architecture often suggests a lower register of design and taste and is commonly viewed negatively as cheap, tacky, inappropriate, and obvious. However, the unfettered protocols and material alchemy of such design gestures hint at the possibilities for agency in the artificial. This paper explores how the artificial re-negotiates the definition of interior
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Beckonings Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Heather Scott Peterson, Rossen Ventzislavov
The assertion of scholarly and creative insight is usually accompanied by discomfort. Anything worth saying carries the hazard of refutation or, if proven irrefutable, of growing pains. But this is especially so in the case of one category of insight—the unmentionable. This article examines the nature of the unmentionable, the ways in which it is sanctioned in the worlds of philosophy and design, and
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Mars: Design for the Red Planet Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Lara Hoad, Todd A. Erlandson, Vera Mulyani
With the impending colonization of MARS the human race is on the precipice of becoming a multi-planetary species. Who will decide what the future habitats and cities will look like, and how they will function spatially? The global space industry is one dominated by Scientists and Engineers. At this critical point in time, will it be left to these professions to determine the interior environments of
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Material ombrés Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Virginia San Fratello
San Fratello VirginiaThis essay discusses 3D printed material ombrés created by combining clay bodies from different regions around the world. It focuses specifically on the Bad Ombré vessels designed by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello and uses them as examples to illustrate how an object, through it's material gradient, can tell a story about politics, borders, geology and place.
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Network/Infrastructure/Interior Interiors Pub Date : 2018-01-02 Deborah Schneiderman
A set of interiors can comprise a networked infrastructural system. Typically, infrastructure is understood as transportation, communication or utilities. Recently, infrastructure has been defined to include replicable building models that maintain an organization or information network. As individual buildings become reproducible products engineered for function they can be defined as a networked