Interstices12 derives from a symposium held at The University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning in honour of Distinguished Visitor David Leatherbarrow in October 2010. Impelling this edition is the sense of an undervaluation – critically, aesthetically, professionally – of interiority. Cursorily put, interiority is routinely the casualty of a quarantining edict that has insistently settled it ‘inside’. The essays, drawings and reviews in “Unsettled Containers: Aspects of Interiority” seek to unsettle this closeting effect and consider interiority beyond the prevailing object-cult in design and architecture and a general neglect of the interior. Against an incessant inside/outside partition (of workplaces and dwellings, public and private domains), they explore inside-outside reversals, public-private conflations, vitalising contact-intimacies and alliances that pitch up against a backdrop of stalely replicated public non-places and often banal, architectonic formalism.
Refereed Papers:
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul (AUT University, Auckland) Restless Containers: Thinking interior space – across cultures; Sean Sturm and Stephen Turner (The University of Auckland) “Built Pedagogy”: The University of Auckland Business School as Crystal Palace; Ross Jenner (The University of Auckland) Inner Poverty: A setting of Peter Zumthor’s Brother Klaus Field Chapel; Deborah van der Plaat (ATCH, University of Queensland) Cosmopolitan Interiors: Oscar Wilde and the House Beautiful; Stefanie Sobelle (Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania) Inscapes: Interiority in architectural fiction; AnnMarie Brennan (University of Melbourne) Life at the Periphery: The urban politics of Neorealism in post-war Rome; Kate Linzey (WelTec) Reflective Interiors: The Pepsi Pavilion and the Tower of the Sun; John Di Stefano & Dorita Hannah (National Art School, Sydney, & Massey University College of Creative Arts) Intermission: Interstitial moments in creative and cruel practice.
Invited Papers
David Leatherbarrow (University of Pennsylvania School of Design) Disorientation and Disclosure; Peter Sloterdijk (University of Art and Design, Karlsruhe) Architecture As an Art of Immersion.
Non-refereed Papers
John Walsh (Auckland) Just Looking; Rafik Patel (AUT University, Auckland) An Opening of
Tanwir; Gerrit Confurius (Berlin) On Modernism’s Secret Anxieties; Lynda Simmons (Auckland) Interior Darkness / Contained Shadow; Maurizio Sabini (Kent State University, Ohio) Marco Frascari’s
Eleven Exercises in the Art of Architectural Drawing (review); Carin Wilson (Auckland)
Whare Māori (review); Emma Morris (London) The Archive of Atmosphere: Installation as an interior architectural event; Ross Jenner (The University of Auckland) Law Faculty Library at the University of Zurich by Santiago Calatrava.
Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is the only publication of its kind in Australasia and received an “A” in the Australian Research Council’s journal ranking exercise (2009, 2010). The journal is published once a year and is supported by editorial board members Mike Austin, Ursula Baus, Uta Brandes, Karen Burns, Peggy Deamer, Marco Frascari, Mark Goulthorpe, Anthony Hoete, Fiona Jack, Robert Jahnke, Bechir Kenzari, Jonathan Lamb, David Leatherbarrow, Stephen Loo, Mirjana Lozanovska, John Macarthur, Jeff Malpas, Nigel Ryan, Renato Rizzi, Joseph Rykwert, Laurence Simmons, Nicholas Temple, Paul Walker and Peter Wood.
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