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The Interiors Reader
An Anthology of Critical Writing on Interior Architecture and Design
- 1st Edition - September 1, 2010
- Editor: Brian Kernaghan
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 3 9 9 3 - 3
This collection of essays brings together, in one source, the key writings on interior architecture. Including a mixture of both famous writers and not so famous articles, this… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis collection of essays brings together, in one source, the key writings on interior architecture. Including a mixture of both famous writers and not so famous articles, this primer covers the spectrum of the crucial debates that have occurred within the subject over the years. Accompanied by both original and new illustrations, this attractive book is useboth both as a starting point and a reference to return to in the study of interior architecture and design.
Ideal for students, this concise and accessible collection allows the reader to dip in out out of the subject catagories that are most relevant to them, and a handy glossary of important terms and phrases provides an essential introduction to the topic.
Ideal for students, this concise and accessible collection allows the reader to dip in out out of the subject catagories that are most relevant to them, and a handy glossary of important terms and phrases provides an essential introduction to the topic.
* Unique one-stop source for the key debates of interior architecture
* Includes essays and excerpts from antiquity to the present day to give a full flavour of the subject
* Presents interior architecture as a discipline in its own right to give clarity to its key ideas
* Includes essays and excerpts from antiquity to the present day to give a full flavour of the subject
* Presents interior architecture as a discipline in its own right to give clarity to its key ideas
Students of Interior Architecture, Interior Design and Architecture. Architecture academics. Students and professionals in related disciplines such as art and design.
Introduction; Definitions; Education and Pedagogy; Architecture as Space; Intervention and Alteration; Experiment and Innovation; Atmosphere; Space in Art; Practice; Preseravation, restoration and conservation; Evocations of the Interior in Literature; Glossary; Bibliography; Indices. Includes extracst and essay by, among others, Reyner Banham, Sir Hugh Casson, Kenneth Frampton, Adolf Loos, Herman Hertzberger, Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi, Junichiro Tanakazi, and writing about Michaelangelo, William Morris, Le Corbusier, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Carlo Scarpa and Mies van der Rohe.
- No. of pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 1, 2010
- Imprint: Architectural Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080939933
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Brian Kernaghan
Brian has been head of the Department of Interior Architecture at Rhode Island since 1996.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, and Head of the Department of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design