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Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2006
ISBN
0415384672, 9780415384674, 9780203086575
Open Library ID
OL7493917M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1736444 bytes)
Edition
annotated edition
Pages
176\174
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the interior's emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud, and, through case studies, in architecture's trajectories toward modernism. The book argues that the interior emerged with a sense of 'doubleness', being understood and experienced as both a spatial and an image-based condition. Incorporating perspectives from architecture, critical history and theory, and psychoanalysis, The Emergence of the Interior will be of interest to academics and students of the history and theory of architecture and design, social history, and cultural studies.

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