Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity

by Penny Sparke, Patricia Brown, Patricia Lara-Betancourt

Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of 'flow' and how it connects interiors, landscapes and buildings, expanding on traditional notions of architectural prominence. Contributors explore the transitional and intermediary relationships between inside/outside. Through a range of case studies, authors extend the notion of flow beyond the western industrialised world and embrace a wider geography while engaging with the specificity of climate and place. Accompanied by stunning colour illustration and photography, Flow brings together historical, theoretical and practice-based approaches to consider themes of nature, mobility, continuity and frames.

312 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 12, 2018

About the author

Penelope Anne Sparke is a writer and academic who specializes in the history of design. She is a Professor of Design History at Kingston University, London, where she is also Director of the Modern Interiors Research Centre.

Sparke received her B.A. in French Literature and her P.G.C.E. in Education from Sussex University, and her Ph.D. in Design History from Brighton Polytechnic.

Reviews

[Randy Fielding]

Inspiring Topic of Connectedness Between Inside and Out

Heavily academic and belabored, the authors seem burdened by traditional peer-review conventions. Many exciting ideas and historical references if you are ready to dig.