ID4741: History of Interior Design

Besides being a painter, Peter Paul Rubens was also a?

A. Janitor

B. Diplomat

What are the key ideas for understanding interior design history?

1) Space
2) Architecture
3) Design
4) Object in its context (Furniture, Art, "Decoration")
5) Style (Language of Style)
6) Historical Context

Identify the following structure?

Piazza D’Italia (1976-1980)

Charles Moore

New Orleans, Louisiana

Piazza D’Italia (1976-1980)

Charles Moore

New Orleans, Louisiana

• 1 of the most important post-modern spaces

• A tribute to the Italian immigrant community in Nola

• Juxtaposition of a jumble of “deconstructivist” classical architectural fragments (looks like a ruin), columns, pediments, and colorful neon tubes

• Lack of functionality, confusion of high and low culture, multiple historical references (classical antiquity, Italian Renaissance, Pop art), eclectic appeal = an anti-modernist space

• Assumes educated spectator can decipher multiple layers of historical and cultural meaning

Design’s Origins in Drawing

• Traditionally, artists first taught to draw before painting or sculpting; architects draft before erecting building

• Since Renaissance, in Western (academic) artistic/architectural tradition, drawing skills cornerstone of practice; outstanding draftsman = great artists/designer

• Drawings allow artists/architects to collect and record ideas (sketchbooks), proportions and visualize ideas (preparatory drawings); drawings can be an end in themselves

•Drawing in Italian is disegno; English expression “design” is derived from it

How Do Space and Objects Create Context and Meaning?

• Association & feeling does image evoke

• The place and time

• The genuine “casualness”