1st Edition
Interior Design on Edge History, Theory, Praxis
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 contests traditional relationships between architecture, interiors, and the people that use and design them, provoking readers to consider the interior differently, moving beyond its traditional, architectural definition. Focusing on the concept of interiority considered in a wider sense, it draws on interdisciplinary modes of investigation and analysis and reflects the latest theoretical developments in the fields of interior design history and practice.
With new research from both established and emerging authors, this volume will make a valuable contribution to the fields of Interior Design, Architecture, Art and Design History, Cultural History, Visual Culture Studies, and Urban Studies.
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.
