Interior

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From the beginning of the nineteenth century, the middle-class domestic interior arose as an addition to architecture, its concept involved with a professional practice of covering and equipping an inside space provided by architects, and also of representing this 'additional' interior condition. Generally, the rise of the interior, from the nineteenth century is considered in relation to categories of decorative style and is seen in a close relation to categories of architectural style. Yet to consider the interior as an addition to architecture opens new possibilities for its examination in relation to another addition: the subject who inhabits the interior. Papers in this session look outside of the discipline of architecture to analyse smoke, philosophy and stage magic in order to produce new concepts of the inhabiting subject as figured in and by the interior.

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Christine McCarthy
From Smoke-Filled Rooms to Smoke-Free Environments: a history of New Zealand domestic architecture and smoke

Patricia Pringle
Spatial Pleasure

Charles Rice
Thinking and Inhabiting The Doubled Interior

Tracey Woods
Seeing the In-between: an interpretation of a third spatial type

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