Re-Inventing the American Modern Interior: Visual Dissections and Retroactive Montages

The 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 was an investigation on places, cities and buildings, dealing with the experience of space in the first place, but most of all with the aim of understanding and developing architectural themes, design processes, compositional principles and project strategies. The tool for this analysis is montage (of photographs, images, documents, textures, materials) that, after dissections and distillations, expresses the character and the concept of the building and the site. Published in Journal of Interior Design 44, no. 4 (2019)