1st Edition

Interior Design on Edge History, Theory, Praxis

314 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 112 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Interior Design on Edge explores ways that interiors both constitute and upset our edges, whether physical, conceptual or psychological, imagined, implied, necessary or discriminatory. The essays in this volume explore these questions in history, theory, and praxis through a focus on different periods, cultures, and places. Interior Design on Edge showcases new scholarship that expands and... Read more

Introduction

Erica Morawski

Section I: Liminal Edges

1. From the Inside Out: China’s Post-Socialist Housing Reform

Yang Yang

2. [re] Tracing the Veil: Implied Boundary and Invisible Wall

Selma Ćatović Hughes

3. Province of Interiors: Strategies and Tactics on the Frontier of Northern New Spain


Marie Saldaña

4. The Plastex Wall and the Analytic Couch: Surface, Subject, and the Psychotherapeutic Interior


Eric Anderson

5. Embodied Imaginaries of Interior Space: A framework for Dynamic Environments and Sensory Inclusion


Severino Alfonso and Loukia Tsafoulia

 

 Section II: Material Edges

 6. Interior Landscapes: A Look at the Interior at the Microscale

Nerea Feliz

 

7. Being Manwaring: Crafting Embodied History

Annie Coggan

 

8. Earth-Eating in Golden Age Spain: On the Pleasure of Clay and the Secrets of Women

Elliot Camarra

 

9. At the Edge of the Earth

Virginia San Fratello

 

 

Section III: Mediating

 

10. The Production of the Traveling Public: Rest Stop Interior Design 1950–1970

Gretchen Von Koenig

 

11. Body Language

Alex Goldberg

 

12. Polyatmospheric Urban Interiors: Late-COVID-19 Case Studies

Liz Teston

 

13. The Day the Sun Never Rose: COVID-19, Wildfire and California’s Relationship with Interior Air

Amy Campos

 

14. Moving to the Edge: How the Relocation of the Provincial Higher Architecture Institute in Hasselt, Belgium, Reshaped Its Interior Architecture Program

Sam Vanhee, Fredie Floré, Els De Vos

 

Biography

Erica Morawski, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Design History at the Pratt Institute in New York.

Deborah Schneiderman, RA, LEED AP, is a professor of Interior Design at the Pratt Institute and principal/founder of deSc: architecture/design/research.

Keena Suh is a professor in the Interior Design department at the Pratt Institute where she teaches design studios, electives, and construction courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels while coordinating the department’s construction-related courses.

Karin Tehve is a professor of Interior Design at the Pratt Institute, where she coordinates the theory and undergraduate thesis curriculum in Interior Design.

Karyn Zieve, Ph.D., is an assistant dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor CCE in the History of Art and Design Department at the Pratt Institute. She earned her MA from University of Pennsylvania and her Ph.D. from Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.