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Zusatztext Rather effectively, the editors of and authors in this volume compel us to think differently about the interface between interiors, architecture and landscape. As a four-letter word, FLOW proves a powerful way to renew and redress disciplinary, conceptual and physical boundaries that have for too long limited knowledge of the material world. Informationen zum Autor Penny Sparke is a Pro-Vice Chancellor at Kingston University, UK. She is also a Professor of Design History and the Director of the Modern Interiors New Book Proposal Research Centre. Her publications include An Introduction to Design and Culture, 1900 to the Present (1986 and 2004); Design in Context (1987); As Long as it's Pink: The Sexual Politics of Taste (1995) and The Modern Interior (2008). Patricia Brown works in landscape architecture research, education and practice, leading landscape research and education at Kingston University, UK and is director of Landscape and Landscape Interface Studio. Patricia Lara-Betancourt is a researcher at the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Kingston University, UK. Her research focuses on themes of modernity, representation and identity. She is a co-editor of Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: from the Victorians to Today (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011). Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist. Her academic focus is on cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design theory and studio practice, to engage with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Her recent curatorial practice experiments with Deep Mapping methods to investigate the landscapes, interiors and gardens of remote and rural Australia. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor in Interior Design at RMIT University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2017. Mark Taylor was Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His primary research focus was the history and theory of the modern architectural interior with an emphasis on cultural and social issues. He published several books including Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (2006), Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2013), Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018). He was co-editor of Domesticity under Siege: When Home isn't Safe (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022) with Georgina Downey and Terry Meade. Klappentext Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western industrialised world and embrace a wider geography while engaging with the specificity of climate and place. Accompanied by stunning colour illustration and photography, Flow brings together historical, theoretical and practice-based approaches to consider themes of nature, mobility, continuity and frames. Vorwort This innovative volumes combines cutting-edge scholarship and practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors and landscapes. Zusammenfassung Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to addres...
