The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design

Graeme Brooker is Head of Interior Design at the Royal College of Art, UK. Between 2013 and 2015 he was the Head of the Department of Fashion and Interiors at Middlesex University, UK. He has authored and co-authored several books on the interior, including Rereadings: Interior Architecture and the Principles of Remodeling Existing Buildings (2004), Form and Structure: The Organisation of Interior Space (2007), Context and Environment: Site and Ideas (2008), The Visual Dictionary of Interior Architecture (2008), Objects and Elements: Occupying Interior Space (2009), What is Interior Design? (2010) and From Organisation to Decoration (2012). He is Founder and Director of the charity Interior Educators, the national subject association for interiors in the UK. Lois Weinthal is Chair of the School of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Her teaching explores these topics, where theoretical discussions are put into practice in the design studio. Her seminar teaching led to the publication Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory (2011), which organises the interior as a series of layers that surround the body. Additional publications include the co-edited After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design (2011). In 2016, she became Editor of the international journal Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture. Weinthal has received grants from the Graham Foundation, Fulbright and DAAD, and has exhibited and lectured internationally. Previously, she directed the Interior Design program at Parsons the New School for Design and was graduate advisor at The University of Texas at Austin.

General Introduction PART 1: CONTEXTS Part 1.1: Reflecting upon the Discipline 1. Modern History and Interior Design 2. Rethinking Histories, Canons + Paradigms 3. Interior Design Theory and Philosophies 4. Methods of Research + Criticality 5. Educating the Designer 6. Regulation: Convention: Legislation 7. The Profession of the Designer Part 1.2: Interior Terrains 8. The Interiorists 9. Contested Territories 10. Adaptation/Reuse 11. New Occupancy 12. Programming and Function 13. Public Inhabitation 14. The Private Domestic Realm 15. Work Space 16. Set Design: Performance, Event, Retail 17. Exhibition Design PART 2: OCCUPANCY Part 2.1: The Body, Behaviour and Space 18. The Body 19. Psychology and Behaviour 20. Sexuality and Gender 21. Healthy Environments 22. Ageing Populations 23. Demographics and Identity Part 2.2: Ethics and the Indoor Environment 24. Ethics 25. Consumption 26. Sustainability 27. Politics 28. Globalization PART 3: REPRESENTATION AND FABRICATION Part 3.1: Speculative forms of production 29. Drawing 30. Modelling 31. Technology 32. Digital Representation and Fabrication 33. Television, Gaming and New Media 34. Literary Narratives Part 3.2: Atmospheric Conditions of the Interior 35. Colour + Materiality 36. Ornament and Decoration 37. Taste + Trends 38. Phenomenology and the Senses Bibliography Index