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Re‐Inventing the American Modern Interior: Visual Dissections and Retroactive Montages
Author(s) -
M. Martinelli Patrizio
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of interior design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1939-1668
pISSN - 1071-7641
DOI - 10.1111/joid.12162
Subject(s) - focus (optics) , space (punctuation) , architectural engineering , visual arts , character (mathematics) , work (physics) , engineering , computer science , art , mechanical engineering , physics , geometry , mathematics , optics , operating system
This visual essay is the outcome of a research trip through Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, an “on the road trip” designed to discover some of the most representative domestic and urban Modern American interiors. The focus of this work was an investigation of places, cities, and buildings, dealing with the experience of space in the first place but, most of all, aims to understand and develop architectural themes, design processes, compositional principles, and project strategies. The tool for this analysis is a montage (of photographs, images, documents, textures, materials) that, after dissections and distillations, expresses the character and the concept of the building.