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General Introduction: Penny Sparke * PART ONE: THE LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1870-1900)
• Introduction: Emma Ferry
• 1. Plate Glass and Progress: Victorian Modernity at Home, Trevor Keeble, Kingston University
• 2. Privacy and Supervision in the Modernised Public House Interior 1872-1902, Fiona Fisher, Kingston University * 3. The German Interior at the End of the Nineteenth Century Sabine Wieber, Roehampton University
• PART TWO: THE EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1900-1940)
• Introduction: Penny Sparke
• 4. Taking Amusement Seriously: Modern Design in the Twenties, Christopher Reed, Lake Forest College, Chicago
• 5. 'The scene in which the daily drama of personal life takes place': Towards the Modern Interior in early 1930s Britain, Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University
• 6. The Modern Interior as the Geography of Image, Space and Subject, Irene Nierhaus, Bremen University, Germany
• 7. 'Leaving Traces'. Anonymity in the Modernist House, Hilde Heynen, KU Leuven Universitat, Belgium
• 8. The Geography of the Diagram: The Rose Seidler House, Charles Rice, University of New South Wales, Sydney
• PART THREE: THE MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1940-1970)
• Introduction: Penny Sparke
• 9. Hans Scharoun and the Interior, Peter Blundell Jones, The Univrsity of Sheffield
• 10. New Environments for Modern Living: 'At Home' with the Eameses, Pat Kirkham, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York
• 11. Italy's New Domestic Landscape, 1945-1972, Penny Sparke, Kingston University
• 12. Ocean Liners, Resort Hotels and the Architecture of Leisure, Alice T. Friedman, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
• 13. Nationalism and Design at the End of Empire, Anne Massey, Kingston University
• PART FOUR: THE LATE-TWENTIETH-CENTURY INTERIOR (1970 – present) * Introduction: Trevor Keeble
• 14. The Dark Side of the Modern Home, David Crowley, Royal College of Art
• 15. Locating the Modern Impulse within the Japanese Love Hotel, Sarah Chaplin, Kingston University * 16. The Contemporary Interior: Trajectories of Biography and Style, Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna * 17. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED): Encouraging Sustainable Living in the UK, Anne Chick, Kingston University
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index
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Dennis Ward
reviewed Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today on March 22, 2016
Designing the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today
When I was a child I used to have long walks with my parents (both architects) along the streets of my home town and listen to them discuss almost every building, every design choice and ornament we passed. Since then I got used to walking the streets looking up at the buildings (this resulted in stepping inside numerous puddles, dogs business and never finding any coins) and I thought that I could really "see" a building.
After reading this book I discovered a whole new way of "looking" at architecture. I discovered that buildings have their own psychology - it's in a way the building speaks to it's surroundings, it's in the way windows, doors, and other elements co-exist.
In this book Alain asks questions like, why we consider some things beautiful. What is elegance. And what buildings say about the times they were build in, and what they don't say about people who live in them.
I think that anyone who deals with aesthetics should give this book a go even if he doesn't find architecture particularly interesting. I can assure you will find this book very stimulating.
I also looked up some of the authors Alain mentions and found some interesting titles to add to my reading list:
Wilhelm Worringer - "Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style" and essays
Rudolf Arnheim - "Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye"
And essays by Friedrich Schiller
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