Toward

New Interior An

Anthology of Interior Design Theory

Lois Wemihai. editor

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Table of Contents

9 u

Acknowledgments
Preface Introduction

15

Chapter 1: Body and Perception

24

Introduction Places at the

Zero Point
-

27
36 40

Doris von Drathen

The Box Man

Kobo Abe Juhanl Pallasmaa

-

An Architecture of the Seven Senses

so

Body Troubles

Robert McAnulty

Chapter
72 75

2: Clothing and Identity

Introduction

Cutting Patterns
Drapery
-

Kerstin Kraft

91 102

Anne Hollander Wim Wenders

Notebook on Clothes and Cities

A

H3
127

Conversation with Jacques Herzog

Caroline Evans
-

Jeffrey Kipnis

No Man's Land

Chapter 3: Furniture
144 147

and Objects

Introduction The Decorative Art of Today

A
-

Le Corbusier

154
163

Battle Against Kitsch

Milena Veenis Andrew Blauvelt

-

Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life

The Rules of Her
Game: A-Z at Work and
-

175
191 199

Play

Trevor S mith

For the Love of Things

Louise Schouwenberg

Furnishing the

Primitive Hut. Allan Wexler's

-

Experiments

Beyond Buildings
212

Aaron Betsky
-

Courtney Smith, Tongue and Groove: Movable Sculpture

Manon Slome

Chapter 4:
222 225 240

Color and Surfaces

Introduction

Chromophobia
The

David Batchelor

Principle of Cladding

Adolf Loos
-

246

The Amber Room: Introduction

and Adrian Levy

Catherine Scott-Clark

252 267 271 283

The Yellow

Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Michel Serres Petra Blaisse

-

The Five Senses: Boxes Curtain

as

Architecture

Skin: New

Design Organics

Ellen Lupton

Chapter 5: Mapping the Interior

296 299

Introduction
The

Developed

Surface: An

Enquiry into the Brief Life

-

of

an

Eighteenth-Century Drawing Technique

326 335 341

Robin Evans

Corners

and Darts
-

Lois Weinthal

Flattened Room

Jeanlne Centuori
-

Space-Enfolding-Breath

Monica Wyatt

348 358

Engineering the Indoor Environment

In
a Few

Jeffrey Siegel

Lines,

Alan Storey

Catherine Bedard
-

364

Self as Eye: The

Perspective

Box

Celeste Brusati

Chapter
380 383 394

6: Private Chambers

Introduction Inside the Inside

-

Mark Wigley

Domesticity

Witold

Rybczynski
-

413
425

The Name of the Boudoir

Ed Lilley
-

Closets, Clothes, disclosure

Henry Urbach

438

Inside Anne Frank's House: An Illustrated Journey through

Anne's

World

Hans Westra

446 475

Berggasse Interior
-

19: Inside

Freud's Office

Diana Fuss and Joel

Sanders

Beatriz Colomina

Chapter 7: Public Performance

502

Introduction

505

The Specular Spectacle of the House of the Collector

Helene Furjan

519

Polyvalent Spaces:

The Postmodern Wunderkammer and

-

the Return of Ambiguity

527

Pablo Helguera

Metaphysics of Space: The Quay

-

Brothers'

Atmospheric

Cosmogonies
546

Suzanne H. Buchan

Architecture of the Gaze: Jeffries's Apartment and

Steven Jacobs

Courtyard

559

Display Engineers

Aaron

Betsky

Chapter
576
579 586

8:

Bridging the Interior and Exterior

Introduction
Theatre de l'univers
Frances Terpak
-

The Secrets of Rooms

Diana Gaston

596
609 616

Gordon Matta-Clark
House 1993
-

Dan Graham

Charlotte Mullins
-

Rodinsky's Room

Rachel Lichtenstein and lain Sinclair

-

625

Of the Hollow Spaces in the Skin of the Architectural Body

Wolfgang Meisenheimer

632 639

Biographies Bibliography
Index

641