- Title
- Interior design and architecture: critical and primary sources - cinematic expectation
- Creator
- Taylor, Mark
- Relation
- Interior Design & Architecture: Critical & Primary Sources. Volume 3. Cinematic Expectation p. viii-xvii
- Relation
- http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/interior-design-and-architecture-9781847889294/
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Representations of the interior across various visual media such as film, literature, art, and photography offer dynamic exchanges between occupants, visitors, and their immediate environment. It is in this sense that this volume is gathered around the term 'cinematic', indicating a shift from the formal and static conceptions of architecture as a built edifice, to its place as a cultural and artistic location for inspiration. Many of 'primary' sources included in this volume have not necessarily contributed to academic study within the disciplinary boundary of interior design and architecture, but their contribution as an interdisciplinary examination of both ideal and real spaces offers an 'outsider' perspective and challenges many of the underlying values derived from architectural theory. It is also striking how little of this material is included in generalized histories or studies of the interior, particularly as any encounter between different ways of conceptualizing psychological and topographical relations of inhabitants and space enables new ways of thinking about interiors. The link between the interior and social change is probably strongest in this volume. Many of the contributors discuss interiors and situations through imaginative display and through a range of spaces, events, and characters derived from observational accounts of life, including the supernatural spaces of gothic horror and the gritty environment of pulp fiction. In Siegfried Kracauer's essay 'The Hotel Lobby' from The Mass Ornament, it is the detective story that provides an opportunity to conceptualize the hotel lobby as oppositional to the House of God. Other 'cinematic' productions align their architectural interiors to contemporary spaces portrayed in architectural magazines and books, whereas the use of real spaces in fictive accounts and their comparison with extant literature documenting their use and representation is an area still open to scholars.
- Subject
- interior design; visual culture; cinematic engagement; filmic space
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1319707
- Identifier
- uon:23942
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781847889621
- Language
- eng
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