Lecture date: 2007-02-26
What is it to think of the domestic interior not as the essential and timeless context of domesticity, but as a specific emergence, a concept and material manifestation of nineteenth-century modernity?
To coincide with the publication of the monograph ‘The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity’, the lecture explores what this emergence means for thinking through key aspects of modernity, including subjectivity, experience and historical time, as well as for looking again at key architectural contexts from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. While considering architecture’s trajectories toward modernism, Rice traces the interior’s emergence in relation to the thinking of Walter Benjamin and Sigmund Freud.
Charles Rice is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney.
