The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

by Rice; Charles

• ISBN13: 9780415384681
• ISBN10: 0415384680
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Within the broad humanities field,Inhabiting the Doubled Interiorrepresents the first attempt to study the domestic interior as a specific concept. The book develops a new understanding of bourgeois domesticity by establishing the domestic interior as a context that emerged historically at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The arguments of the book are structured around a concept of the doubled interior. This novel concept recognizes that the interior emerged historically to mean both a space and an image of a space, as well as supporting material and immaterial forms of domestic experience. The book uses this concept to develop new ways of dealing with the historical evidence of the interior, and it allows an eclectic and novel array of historical and theoretical material to be brought together in a wide-ranging account of bourgeois domesticity.

Author Biography

Charles Rice is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology, Sydney

Table of Contents

Illustration credits	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1
Part 1: Orientations	7
1 Irrecoverable inhabitations: Walter Benjamin and histories of the interior	9
2 Lost objects: Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytical interior	37
Part 2: Trajectories	55
3 Imagining the interior: Plan and comfort	57
4 Consuming the interior: Geography and identity	75
5 Recognizing the interior: Space and image	94
Conclusion: Mediatized domesticity	112
Notes	120
Bibliography	149
Index	158