The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity [Paperback]

Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism.

The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, The Emergence of the Interior will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies.

Introduction  Part I: Orientations  1. Irrecoverable Inhabitations: Walter Benjamin and the History of the Interior  2. Lost Objects: Sigmund Freuds Psychoanalytical Interior  Part II: Trajectories  3. Imagining the Interior: Plan and Comfort  4. Consuming the Interior: Geography and Identity  5. Recognizing the Interior: Space and Image  Conclusion: Mediatized Domesticity 

The first book to study the interior as a specific concept, this fresh new interpretation of a contemporary situation brings together an eclectic and novel array of historical and theoretical material in a wide-ranging account of the domestic interior.

Charles Rice is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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