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image by Ryan Swallow (spring 2019) Special Issue: "Thinking the Body-Inside" edited by Ronn Daniel & Lynn ChalmersAbstract:Public spaces do not exist without the presence of bodies. Mediation repositions bodies in space in relation to one another. Existing scholarship has focused on these effects in spaces of civic action, but everyday publics are less understood.... Continue Reading →
[pinched from the publisher's website] _Honored to be asked to contribute a review for a book edited by Penny Sparke, to whom I would credit my conversion to interior design theory. Her work is an inspiration to me and to many.That book: Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity. Editors: Penny Sparke, Pat Brown, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Gini Lee & Mark Taylor.... Continue Reading →
[image pinched from publisher's website] _Honored to work with fellow editors Anca I. Lasc, Deborah Schneiderman, Keena Suh, Alexa Griffith Winton and Karyn Zieve. This is the first publication of work presented at Interior Provocations, a series of symposia founded by Pratt Institute Faculty in the History of Art and Design and Interior Design Departments.
New York City’s incentive zoning program (1961-2000) created dozens of interior privately-owned-public-spaces (POPS). These represent variable degrees of publicness, spaces of appearance or performance dependent on those spaces’ access, configuration and features. This article uses the scholarship of Hannah Arendt, Judith Butler & Pierre Bourdieu to analyze these urban public interiors, demonstrating that obstacles to... Continue Reading →
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image: Joseph Paxton. The Crystal Palace. Westminster, GB. 1851 quote: Casey Haskins. "Kant and the Autonomy of Art" The subject of the talk concentrated on the autonomy of the interior from architecture, through the interior's embrace of the impermanent, of change and subsequent independence from architectures’s project of permanence (of duration & unity).04.15.19with editors Deborah... Continue Reading →
Analysis of CSH#20. Buff, Straub & Hensman. Bass House. 1959. Student: Molly Sherman, MS Interior Design. Analysis produced SP13. Presentation delivered at the Interior Design Education Council (IDEC) National Convention. Boston MA. Spring 18. When one asks the question what is the most important qualification for an interior designer, the average person’s answer is (still,... Continue Reading →
from the website:Interior Provocations, a symposium founded by Pratt Institute Faculty in the History of Art and Design and Interior Design Departments, provides a public forum for critical thinking about the design, theory and history of the interior. Comprised of provocative and boundary-expanding presentations by design practitioners, historians and theorists, the symposium is dedicated to... Continue Reading →
BOFFO Building Fashion. Snarkitecture with Richard Chai. 2010. photo: Snarkitecture Each in its sphere attempts to combine the interest in duration, unity and similarity with that in change, specialization and peculiarity. It becomes self-evident that there is no institution, no law, no estate of life, which can uniformly satisfy the full demands of the two... Continue Reading →
Analysis of CSH#9. Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen. Entenza House. 1945-9. Students: Anandan/ Dudley/ Huang Analysis produced SP14. Presentation delivered at Common Ground: International Conference on The Image Conference. Venice, Italy. Fall 17. Beatriz Colomina stated that architecture becomes modern through its relationship with media, an assertion that can be quantified. Certainly most of our... Continue Reading →