Description:
This volume explores issues of repair, maintenance, sustenance, and adaptation within the context of interior design and its histories. This will be of great interest to students and academics of interior design, as well as architecture, conservation, visual culture, art history, and those interested in the theory of the reuse of interiors.
Review Quotes:
"In a world with finite resources and with the demise of extractivist approaches with which to remove them, the refrain of 'no more new build' will preside over the future of the built environment. The upkeep, repair and maintenance of the existing is an essential feature of these approaches. This volume provides a valuable overview of the thinking around how orthodox creative processes of the origination of the unfettered new are now reversed. As it states, working with the not new, cleaning, pedagogies of waste and the delegitimization of authorship in any construction are the only ways forward for a climatically challenged built environment in the 21st century."
Prof. Graeme Brooker. Head of Interiors at the Royal College of Art, London and the author of 'The superREUSE Manifesto' (Routledge 2025).
"Upkeep, Repair and Maintenance in Adaptive Interiors is a valuable resource for design students, researchers, and practitioners interested in how care and stewardship shape the built environment. By probing often invisible forms of labor as well as the visible cracks that permeate life at all scales, the book makes an optimistic and timely case for thinking and making in a material world prone to breakage."
Igor Siddiqui, Associate Professor and Program Director for Interior Design, The University of Texas at Austin; Editor-in-Chief of the journal Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture.