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This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories. This will be of great interest to students and academics of interior design, as well as architecture, conservation, visual culture, art history, and those interested in the theory of the reuse of interiors.
List of contents
Part 1: Upkeep 1. Move >> Interiority and Upkeep in Syrian Refugee Camps 2.The Merits of Dust: Remaking the Interiors of 8-14 West Eighth Street and American Studio Art Practice 3. Alternative Reality Creation as Liberatory Ideology 4. Francisco Toledo and CASA: Cultural Conservation through Activism and Institution Building in Oaxaca, Mexico 5. Mixed not Stirred: Diverging Outside the Confines of Racial and Disciplinary Boxes of Identification 6. In-between Surfaces: the Fragile and Failing
Part 2: Repair 7. From Making Good to Repair 8. The New Historic House: Mending Historic Space to Center Black Life in the United States 9. Moving Interiors: Disassembling, Reassembling, Re-Installing 10. Creative Repair: Sites and Strategies for Renewal
Part 3: Maintenance 11. Infested Interiors 12. Recipe for Disaster: Keeping up with the American Kitchen 13. Dalit Spatial Continuities: Dirt and the Construction of Interior-Exterior Binaries in Colonial India 14. Upkeep and the Ghost in the Machine: Bataille Bursts Banham's Bubble 15. Ruined Testimony: Rogelio Salmona's Abandoned Vision for the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Cultural Center
About the author
Amy Campos is a Professor at California College of the Arts. She focuses on durability and design, and the impermanent, migratory potentials of the interior. Recent publications include
Public Interiority (Routledge, 2024),
Interior Design On Edge (Routledge, 2024),
Interior Futures (Crucible Press, 2019),
Interiors Beyond Architecture (Routledge, 2018) and
Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge, 2018).
Deborah Schneiderman is a Professor at Pratt Institute. Her scholarship and praxis explore the emerging fabricated interior environment. Recent publications include
Inside Prefab: The Ready-Made Interior; The Prefab Bathroom; Textile, Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space; Interiors Beyond Architecture; Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors; Appropriated Interiors, Interiors On Edge, and The Prefabricated Interior.
Keena Suh is a Professor in the Interior Design Department at Pratt Institute (New York, USA) where she teaches design studios at undergraduate and graduate levels along with electives and construction-related courses, which she coordinates. She holds an MArch from Columbia University.
Karyn Zieve is Assistant Dean in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art & Design at Pratt Institute. She teaches classes that range from the introductory history of art and design sequence to topics in museum studies and the long nineteenth-century European art, design and theory with a focus on cross-cultural communication and miscommunication. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, completing her dissertation on Eugene Delacroix, Orientalism and Historicism.
