PREFACE
PROF. SILKE LANGENBERG
FOREWORD
PROF. BEN KELLY
INTRODUCTION: NO MORE NEW BUILD
WASTE(D)
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ANXIETIES
TABULASRETROFUCKD
(A)MEND
SALVAGE
DEMOLITIONS
HERITAGE(S)
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Biography
Graeme Brooker is full professor of Interior Design and head of Interiors at the Royal College of Art London. He has published close to twenty books on many aspects of the interior including the recent publications The Pedagogies of Re-Use (2024), 50-words for Reuse (2022) and the highly acclaimed Rereading’s, (2005, Volume 2 -2018). He has led interior programmes in Cardiff, Manchester, Brighton and Middlesex and has been a visiting professor in Antwerp, Berlin, Istanbul and Milan. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture, INNER and IDEA. He was the founder of the charity Interior Educators (IE) and is a trustee of United In Design (UID). He is currently working on the book The Story of the Interior, a thematic retelling of histories of the subject without relying on the standard accounts of architecture and their associated chronologies (2025).
