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 IntroductionPART 1: CONTEXTS Part 1.1: Reflecting upon the Discipline1. Modern History and Interior Design2. Rethinking Histories, Canons + Paradigms3. Interior Design Theory and Philosophies4. Methods of Research + Criticality5. Educating the Designer6. Regulation: Convention: Legislation7. The Profession of the DesignerPart 1.2: Interior Terrains8. The Interiorists9. Contested Territories10. Adaptation/Reuse11. New Occupancy12. Programming and Function 13. Public Inhabitation14. The Private Domestic Realm15. Work Space16. Set Design: Performance, Event, Retail17. Exhibition DesignPART 2: OCCUPANCY Part 2.1: The Body, Behaviour and Space18. The Body 19. Psychology and Behaviour20. Sexuality and Gender21. Healthy Environments22. Ageing Populations23. Demographics and IdentityPart 2.2: Ethics and the Indoor Environment 24. Ethics25. Consumption26. Sustainability27. Politics28. GlobalizationPART 3: REPRESENTATION AND FABRICATIONPart 3.1: Speculative forms of production29. Drawing30. Modelling31. Technology32. Digital Representation and Fabrication33. Television, Gaming and New Media 34. Literary NarrativesPart 3.2: Atmospheric Conditions of the Interior35. Colour + Materiality36. Ornament and Decoration37. Taste + Trends38. Phenomenology and the SensesBibliographyIndex

From uniquely varied viewpoints and scales of exploration, The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design provides clear-eyed insight into a profession that has evolved dramatically in the last decades to come into its own. It is an important contribution that further clarifies the practice of Interior Architecture in the 21st century.