Something More Than Literal: Notes Towards the Autonomy of the Interior

Paradoxically, the space between Architecture andInteriors is proximate yet remote. The two disciplinesare inextricably linked to one another invicinity yet distances apart in the values that animatetheir practices. Efforts to reconcile this paradoxicalcondition typically reside in strategies to reduce thegap between architecture and interiors. To reconcilethem and create only proximity, as it were. Suchstrategies either mediate the disciplines’ disparatevalues or dismiss one discipline’s values in favorof the other’s. In all cases, however, these strategiesrequire Architecture or Interiors to relinquishautonomy in one way or another. As such, a questionarises: rather than surrender autonomy, mightthere be an alternative strategy that approachesthe condition of proximity and remoteness withoutrequiring forfeiture of disciplinary sovereignty?

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6