Honored to work with Ladi’Sasha Jones and Amy Campos on this project, led by the indefatigable & fabulous Liz Teston. Liz’s work on how perception is an integral characteristic of interior public spaces (whether or not those would be recognized as interior conditions) has been ground-breaking, and has influenced my own thinking profoundly. This book won the 2025 IDEC Book Award.
Thanks to Linsey Krug, Marcin Kędzior and Will Fu, Stefani Byrd, Ria Bravo, Jered Sprecher, Lysa Janssen & Nerea Feliz for their provocative and ground-breaking contributions to the volume, your work was a joy to edit.
from the publisher’s website:
Public Interiority reconsiders the limits of the interior and its perceived spaces, exploring the notion that interior conditions can exist within an exterior environment, and therefore challenging the very foundations of the interior architecture field.
Public Interiority contains eight chapters and 16 visual essays that document the historical, material, and social conditions in contemporary cities, reconsidering the limits of the interior, resiliency in design, spatial perception, and territories within curated urban exteriors. Topics include the supergraphics of Black Lives Matter protests, privacy and US Supreme Court landmark cases, Instagram as a quasi-public interior, domestic simulation in Victorian curative environments, the micro-urban commons of public transit, and the timely study uncovering Jean-Michel Wilmotte’s approach to “urban interior designing,” among many others.
Including scholarly and visual essays by experts from a range of disciplines, including architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture, exhibition design, craft and the visual arts, and design history and theory, this volume will be a helpful resource for all those upper-level students and scholars working in these related fields.