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The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity book cover

1st Edition

The Emergence of the Interior Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

By Charles Rice Copyright 2007
176 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case... Read more

Introduction  Part I: Orientations  1. Irrecoverable Inhabitations: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Interior  2. Lost Objects: Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytical Interior  Part II: Trajectories  3. Imagining the Interior: Plan and Comfort  4. Consuming the Interior: Geography and Identity  5. Recognizing the Interior: Space and Image  Conclusion: Mediatized Domesticity 

Biography

Charles Rice is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney.

'Charles Rice engages in the readability of the interior and its polysemic nature, stretching design theory into issues of image, imageability, and the social production of space ... brilliantly written, for graduate seminars, Rice's book is particularly useful and should be added to the 'must read' list.' – Cities

 

'After reading Rice's book, I would highly recommend its addition to your personal collection.' – Cities

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