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Theorising Interior Architecture and Design: Identity, Practices, Education, and Beyond
(Routledge, 2026) Ebert, Carola
Theorising Interior Architecture and Design: Identity, Practices, Education, and Beyond examines interior architecture and design from a contemporary and international perspective, taking theory building to be one of the most important activities for a discipline. The volume explores the interior discipline's theoretical dimension and its pedagogical, professional, and creative practices in different settings across the globe. Organised in four thematic sections and an epilogue, 20 chapters address vital aspects of contemporary interior architecture and design, including the discipline's contested identity, its relationship to theoretical concepts such as surface, interiority/exteriority, and time, and the diverse roles of interior education and professional practice. The book investigates how the interior discipline, long classified as emerging or relatively young, has over recent decades come of age academically, in practice, and in theory, and what lies beyond its boundaries.
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Von der Architektenausbildung zum Architekturstudium! Forschendes Lernen als architekturwissenschaftliches Integral in der Lehre
(TU Berlin Universitätsverlag, 2021) Ebert, Carola
Das Architekturstudium ist inhaltlich, strukturell und personell im deutschsprachigen Raum eng mit der Berufspraxis verknüpft. Die Ausbildung von Architektinnen und Architekten steht im Vordergrund der Akkreditierungsanforderungen und die architektonische Praxis prägt Alltag und die Erfahrungen der meisten Lehrenden. Das folgende Manifest plädiert für ein erweitertes Verständnis des Architekturstudiums. Es nutzt die forschungsorientierte Perspektive der Architekturwissenschaft und das hochschuldidaktische Format Forschenden Lehrens, um diese Gewissheiten der Architekturlehre zu hinterfragen. Aufbauend auf zehn Thesen postuliert es ein Architekturstudium mit zwei unterschiedlichen Integralen – mit Entwerfen als entwurfspraktischem und Forschendem Lernen als architekturwissenschaftlichem Integral.
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Radical P/revisions: Heritage Metaphors, Discourses, Becomings
(Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, 2023) Aquilar, Giorgia
Taking Robert Smithson's unpublished typescript Two Attitudes Toward the City as its point of departure, this chapter constructs a three-act counterdiscourse on architectural heritage through the generative lens of metaphor. Against the reduction of heritage to fixed narratives of authenticity and integrity, Aquilar draws on the radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s — including works by Haus-Rucker-Co., Alan Sonfist, Zziggurat, Ant Farm, Gianni Pettena, the Florentine collective 9999, and SITE — to propose heritage as a site of perpetual becoming. Structured around Smithson's tripartite schema of the old city, the new city, and the technological apparatus, the three acts reframe heritage successively as Time Landscape, Time Warp, and Time Capsule: figures that resist material stasis and open the built legacy toward entangled temporalities, counter-preservation, and speculative futures. Closing with Ettore Sottsass' photographic series Design Metaphors and Hans Hollein's MAN transFORMS exhibition at the Carnegie Mansion, the chapter proposes metaphor itself as a medium for renegotiating the boundary between permanence and change, and for envisioning a heritage that undoes and remakes itself in sequences of perpetual becoming.
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Composite Practice: Interdependence in the design-build process
(Practices in Research, 2025) Brünjes, Katrin
Contemporary construction practice is undergoing a fundamental shift away from demolition and reconstruction toward the transformation of existing building fabric. This article introduces the concept of "composite practice" as a design methodology that responds to ecological imperatives by treating existing architectural elements as active design parameters rather than constraints. Drawing on two case studies; the renovation of a 1908 Berlin apartment and the conversion of a 1940s twin farmworkers' house into a community dwelling; the article demonstrates how preserved fragments, repurposed components, and layered materials can be orchestrated into coherent spatial assemblages. The iterative, in-situ design-build process that composite practice demands supplants the conventional linear sequence of office-based design followed by on-site construction, instead merging these phases into a dialogical collaboration between architects, builders, and the existing structure. Informed by the concept of the palimpsest, composite practice reframes apparent inconsistency and material heterogeneity as compositional assets, challenging Albertian ideals of architectural wholeness in favour of an open, adaptive approach that acknowledges the built environment as perpetually unfinished.
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Models at Different Scales. A Study on the Inference in the Perception of the Relationship between Space, Body, and Object
(Unione Italiana per il Disegno, 2024-06-30) Martin-Fuentes, Daniel; Martín, Javier
The debate of the predominance between drawing and model as design tools is as old as Architecture itself. Up to our days, we cannot deny the centralism of drawings in the process of ideation, configuration, and communication of architecture, but the use of models has never disappeared because both elements result to be complementary. Is widely known how drawings change in concretion depending on the scale. There is no research if the same thing occurs with models. Basing the study on the works done by students along four courses in an Interior Architecture Degree, this paper delves into the mechanisms of perception behind scale inference in architectural models and discusses their implications for design practice.
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The post-wall-era club culture of Berlin as cultural heritage : "Where there was jag, there is art"
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Phillips, Mark Nicholas; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel
This chapter presents the temporary autonomous underground club scene of Berlin that emerged in Berlin following the fall of the Wall in November 1989 and traces the conditions in which these spaces came to blossom as “interiors without architecture.” The major social, political, and economic modifications that the reunification of Germany necessitated affected the cultural landscape of Berlin and resulted in changes in the cityscape. Abandoned buildings and the consequent ambiguity in legal ownership, combined with the unstable infrastructure and lack of authority, enabled the development of the Berlin model known as Zwischennutzung (temporary use). The anti-aesthetic of the partially illegal club scene with a lack of finish or redesign of spaces, remains the manifestation of what has become a cultural tradition for the city.

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