Flow

Penny Sparke is Professor of Design History at Kingston University, UK, and Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre, the world’s foremost centre of research into modern interiors.Patricia Brown is an Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston University, UK. She was awarded the National Teaching Fellowship in 2004 and subsequently founded the Landscape Interface Studio.Patricia Lara-Betancourt is a researcher at the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston University, UK. She is co-editor of Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (2017) and Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: From the Victorians to Today (2011).Gini Lee is a landscape architect and interior designer. She is the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Mark Taylor is Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has previously edited Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (2013).

This volume of extensive essays provides a fascinating insight into the spatial continuums between interior and landscape. I read it in a variety of spaces: airports, train-stations and at home. It offered beguiling new insights into those fluid environments.

• Introduction: Penny Sparke Section One: Engaging Nature Introduction: Penny SparkeChapter 1Human/Nature: Wilderness and the Landscape/Architecture Divide, Joel Sanders, Yale University and Joel Sanders Architects, USA Chapter 2Spatial Experience within the Colonial Bungalow: The Tropical Modern and Critical Vernacular House in South Asia, 1880-1980, Robin Jones, Independent Scholar, UK Chapter 3Continuities and Discontinuities: The House and Garden as Rational and Psychical Space in Vienna’s Early Modernism, Diane Silverthorne, Birkbeck, University of London and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK Chapter 4A Point of View: Christopher Hussey’s Sense of the Picturesque, Pat Wheaton, Independent Scholar and Christie’s Auction House, London, UK Chapter 5Inside Out: Spectacle and Transformation, Chris Hay, independent scholar, UK and Patricia Brown, Kingston University, UK Chapter 6The Allegory of the Cave: speculations between interior and landscape for the Barangaroo Headland Cultural Facility, Sing d’Arcy University of New South Wales, Australia Chapter 745 degrees, Jude Walton, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia and Phoebe Robinson, Deakin University and Victorian College of the Arts, School of Dance, Australia Section Two: MobilityIntroduction: Gini LeeChapter 8Flow, Kerstin Thompson, Director Kerstin Thompson Architects, Melbourne, Professor in Design, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and Adjunct Professor at RMIT and Monash UniversitiesChapter 9Light Events: Interior and Exterior Space in Michael Snow’s Wavelength (1967), Eleanor Suess, Kingston University, London, UK Chapter 10The Indignant Beton, Elias Constantopoulos University of Patras, GreeceChapter 11Republican Homes:Changing Flows in Domestic Architecture in Santa Fé de Bogota, 1820-1900, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Kingston University, London, UK Chapter 12A Place Out of the Archive: Reprise under [the Condition] of Flow, Gini Lee, The University of Melbourne, Australia and Dolly Daou, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Chapter 13Projective Views, Eleanor Suess, Kingston University, London, UK Section Three: Continuity Introduction: Patricia BrownChapter 14The Interiority of Landscape: Gate, Journey, Horizon, Jeff Malpas, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, and RMIT University, Australia Chapter 15Transitional Spaces in Late Nineteenth Century Domestic Architecture in Mérida, Yucatán, Gladys Arana, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) and Catherine R. Ettinger, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, México Chapter 16A Continuous Landscape? Neighbourhood Planning and the New “Local” in Post-War Bristol, Fiona E. Fisher, Kingston University and Rebecca Preston, Royal Holloway, University of London, UKChapter 17Like Vessels: Giorgio Morandi and the Porticoes of Bologna, Vicky Falconer, University of the Arts London, UKChapter 18Re-thinking Flow and the Relationship Between Indoors and Out: California c.1945-c. 1965, Pat Kirkham, Kingston University, London, UK Chapter 19Green Interiors: Transitional Spaces in Multilevel Building, Elisa Bernardi, Architect, Milan, ItalyChapter 20Between Concentration and Distraction, Sarah Breen Lovett, Artist and Research Fellow at The University of Sydney, Australia Section Four: FramesIntroduction: Mark Taylor Chapter 21Ornamental Transparency in the Modern Kitchen, Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware, USA Chapter 22Tracing Events: Material Tales for Country Homes and Gardens, as found in Rural Australia, Mark Taylor, University of Newcastle, Australia and Gini Lee, The University of Melbourne, Australia Chapter 23Decorating with a View: The Nineteenth-Century Escapist Window, Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, New York, USAChapter 24Curtaining the Curtain Wall: Traversing the Boundaries of the Modern Postwar Domestic Environment, Margaret M. Petty, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, AustraliaChapter 25Speeds, Slowness, Temporal Consistencies and Interior Making,Suzie Attiwill, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Chapter 26Lines to Make Space, Sarah Jamieson, Visiting Research Fellow at University of Technology Sydney, Australia and Nadia Wagner, Glasgow School of Art, Singapore and University of Sydney, Australia