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This article investigates the thesis that the façade, as a diaphragm between two worlds, private and public, architecture and city, domestic and urban, embraces the representation and expression of architectural character, looking at its leading role in the definition of the urban environment, both reacting to it and defining it. However, in particular, the paper focuses on the theme of façade as an inhabited threshold: not a two-dimensional vertical plane but a real architectural interior space. The inhabited façade becomes a place through which it is possible to experience the relationship between interior and exterior, between private and public, architecture and city, not only through the physical movement of “going inside,” “stepping outside,” “walking through” but also through the act of staying, living, and enjoying it as a space and a place that allows relationships between inside and outside.

This study focuses on how the modern furniture designed for Turkey's third parliament building, the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, represented the country's new modern ideals by breaking with its Ottoman heritage. While the architecture of this building has been studied, there are no assessments of its interiors and furniture as integral elements. This study uses archival research and interviews with interior designers who worked on the project. The findings shed light on how modernization was brought to life through the spaces and furniture in this powerful, symbolic building.

Biophilic design seeks to connect people with nature in the built environment. Growing research supports such nature-based inclusion in the built environment, yet little detailed guidance exists for how to integrate it. This study used systematic development, testing, and expansion of the Biophilic Design Matrix (BDM) for the incorporation of biophilia specifically for interior design. McGee and Marshall-Baker developed the original BDM based on Kellert's proposal of biophilic attributes, and it was initially applied in a healthcare setting. To make it more valid and reliable, this study further developed the BDM through cognitive testing with interior design practitioners in another setting type. This included the participants assessing the BDM and completing pre- and postquestionnaires. It also guided the finalized BDM development that now contains six elements and 54 attributes. The findings demonstrate that the interior design practitioners' use of the BDM increased perceived knowledge of biophilic design. The modified version is now called the Biophilic Interior Design Matrix (BID-M), which is valid for biophilic interior design identification. The BID-M also offers assistance with biophilic inclusion throughout the design process and, as such, can support the more integral incorporation of nature-based features in the design of interior environments. The finalized biophilic interior design vocabulary should be useful to help designers include thoughtful biophilic variety for unique application, thus assisting with a “do-it-yourself” approach.

In recent years, the sudden success of “tactical” modes of urbanism has begun to challenge the traditional parameters of public space design by requiring new tools and methodologies of “place-making” within cities. In this regard, interior architecture and design could provide a fundamental perspective to address this new issue if they were not constantly in need of theoretical framing to legitimize their interest in the field. In many cases, in fact, the conjunction between the terms “urban” and “interior” is still seen as a provocation, and the history of the different attempts through which interior disciplines have developed a design approach about the city, although now consolidated, is little known in its complexity. Therefore, this paper offers a critical and historical reading of the concept of “urban interiors,” both from a theoretical and an operative point of view, in order to trace the evolution of this line of investigation and envision its possible future developments. In doing so, it first analyses the different concepts of “interior urbanism” and “urban interiority” and describes the emergence and the evolution of the urban interior design approach. Then, it points out some shared features that characterize contemporary practices of “interior-making” within urban situations to eventually focus on the progressive disciplinary convergence with urban planning and design. The objective is to lay the foundation of a unified theoretical framework that could highlight the methodological contribution of interior disciplines to the urban construction.

Developing societal context awareness in interior architecture students is one of the main objectives of the bachelor thesis at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). By means of a 2-year project on public libraries (2014–2016), the coaches of the design studio initiated research into the changing role of public libraries and the societal embedding of interior architecture, as well as the empathic role of the designer. The article is based on data acquired by the use of various qualitative research techniques, such as focus group debates with the studio coaches, analysis of the coaching sessions with the students, and analysis of the comments of the expert jury in the first research year, supported by half-structured individual interviews with students in the second research year. Based on an initial explorative evaluation of this research project it is clear that the development of societal context awareness in students is hindered by three phenomena: an activated selective perception, a dominant comfort-zone reflex, and copy-cat behavior. The article subsequently reports on (a) the subject of the bachelor thesis (i.e. Flemish public libraries and their societal challenges), (b) the pedagogical design of the renewed bachelor thesis, (c) the ex-ante and ex-post perceived societal awareness of the students, and (d) an initial set of identified enablers and disablers of the learning process. The article concludes that interior educators should continue to invest in triggering and developing societal awareness in their students if the interior discipline aspires to “the social compact to do good.”

This visual essay presents initial evidence for an on-going research study, which explores influences from American, African, and African Diaspora art that have shaped the development of African American domestic interior decoration and design. It examines the dominant stylistic traditions such as social practices, forms, colors, and beliefs to define the Black aesthetic in which African Americans create homemaking. Grounded Theory analyzes the role of memory, territoriality, displacement, and placemaking to create meaningful spaces—visual representation displayed in the form of photographic images of traditional and modern art obtained through historical archives that depict “African American” homemaking as a cultural repository.

Letters offers a forum for sharing ideas, exchanging dialog, and stimulating conversations and debate on critical issues that impact the designed environment as presented in the Perspectives section of the Journal of Interior Design. Diversity has become a flashpoint on North America's political stage and beyond. It is not new but instead, and unfortunately, a part of our nation's fabric as noted by the struggles the interior design profession has had in its own attempts to more accurately reflect the diversity of the United States. In 2018, Jack Travis authored a Perspective published in the Journal of Interior Design. The following letters were received in response to assure that the conversation did not end there.