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Books by Mark Taylor
Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home, 2022
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/domesticity-under-siege-9781350166127/
Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of '... more 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.
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](Abstract: Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the... more Abstract:
Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. To this end, a variety of media and representational techniques are discussed side by side, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films. Structured into three parts and including chapters by leading scholars addressing a wide range of subjects, this book is intended to broaden understanding of French interiors, from historical, theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and provides an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.
Table Of Contents
Introduction, Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor
Section 1: Sex, Dreams, and Desires: The Perversions of the Modern Interior
1. Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle, Australia
2. Intimate Vibrations: Inventing the Dream Bedroom, Fae Brauer, University of East London, UK
3. Angels and Rebels: The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior, Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA
4. Machines and Monsters: The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans's À Rebours, Emilie Sitzia, Maastricht University, Netherlands
5. La Maison Suspendue: Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine, Peter Olshavsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Section 2: Aesthetics, Anxiety, and Identity: Reproducing a Decadent Domesticity
6. The Interiorization of Identity: Portrait Busts and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre- and Early Revolutionary France, Ronit Milano, Tel Aviv University, Israel
7. A Portable Keyhole into the Fictional Apartment Building: The Interiors of Félix Vallotton and Émile Zola, Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA
8. The Fin-de-siècle Poster: A Healthy Modern Stimulus in the French Interior, Katherine Brion, University of Michigan, USA
9. Mode of a Modern Muse: Fashion and Interior in Édouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misia Natanson, Jess Berry, Griffith University, Australia
10. The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic, Elizabeth Melanson, University of Delaware, USA
11. Mallet-Stevens, Modern Design and French Cinema, Nieves Fernández Villalobos, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Section 3: Intimacy, Longing and Performance: The Consumption and Display of the Celebrity Home
12. Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée's Photo-Interviews: Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press, Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, USA
13. Hôtel Baronne Salomon de Rothschild 1872-1878: The Imprint of a Legacy, Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate, University of Florida, USA
14. 'Un Bel Atelier Moderne': The Montparnasse Artist at Home, Louise Campbell, Warwick University, UK
15. Housing the New Dandy: Designing Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1924, John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
16. 'Fashions in Living': The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris, Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
17. 'Si ma cuisine m'était comptée': Paris Match and the Salon des arts ménagers during the Fourth Republic, Guillaume De Syon, Albright College, USA
More Info: co-edited with Anca I. Lasc and Georgina Downey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/designing-the-french-interior-9780857857798/
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Papers by Mark Taylor
Architectural Design, 2016
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media, 2015
This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early Modernism and links it to... more This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early Modernism and links it to the socio-political and technological context of each period. The theme of patterns and its applications is a suitable one through which to rethink architecture’s values about making and living in relation to theories, ideals and priorities. A comparative examination of patterns further prompts revisiting concepts, notions, models and problematics of Twentieth-century architecture, this present time through a computational framing. In respect, this paper first draws upon systemic, structural, geometric and relational patterns developed since early Modernism; then, it delves into dynamic and adaptive patterns employed during late Modernism to respond to the emerging challenges of urban life. It is with the advent of computing that late Modernism’s aspirations have found a strong advocate by which to support complex pattern thinking, adding a cross-scientific perspective into architecture...
Nexus Network Journal, 2018
Journal of Design History, 2017
Nexus Network Journal, 2021
This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early modernism and links it to... more This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early modernism and links it to the socio-political and technological context. The theme of patterns and its applications is a suitable one by which to rethink architecture’s values about making and living in relation to theories, ideals and priorities. A comparative examination of patterns further prompts to revisit concepts, notions, models and problematics of twentieth-century architecture, this present time through the computational framing. In respect, this paper first draws upon systemic, structural, geometric and relational patterns developed since early modernism; then, it delves into dynamic and adaptive patterns employed during late modernism to respond to the emerging challenges of urban life. It is with the advent of computing that late modernism’s aspirations have found a strong advocate by which to support complex pattern thinking, adding a cross-scientific perspective into architecture’s discourse.
Nexus Network Journal, 2019
This paper argues that recent topological expressions of surface in architecture have an intellec... more This paper argues that recent topological expressions of surface in architecture have an intellectual lineage to late-modernism. Several key developments of that era challenged the limitations of a simplifed Cartesian understanding of form. This paper commences with a discussion of Cartesian geometry in Modernism, relative to innovations in the building industry that promoted constancy, repetition and standardisation. Despite the same logic being transferred to digital working platforms where the architectural elements are normally designed as geometric prisms and their immediate derivatives, an interest in computation has enabled architecture to bypass orthogonal regularity. Concepts investigated during late modernism—such as adaptability, disequilibrium, and smooth transitioning—are now central to performance and parametric-based design, examined through the interaction with data inputs, further pointing at critical updates of common software production tools.
Chronica Mundi, 2018
When the late-nineteenth century English advice writer Mary Haweis died in 1898, a number of her ... more When the late-nineteenth century English advice writer Mary Haweis died in 1898, a number of her papers were deliberately destroyed by her husband Hugh Reginald Haweis, in the belief that reputations must be protected. Much later her granddaughter confirmed that this was the case and that her uncle Stephen Haweis may also have been involved. From their accounts, many intimate family papers were destroyed so that they did not fall into the ‘wrong hands’ through the actions of executors.
It seems Mary Haweis’s husband was keen to protect family secrets that involved himself as much as his wife, and although the content is open to speculation, some letters remain indicating family turmoil caused by his scandalous behaviour which perpetuated strained relations between husband, wife and children. Although these include hints of infidelity on his part, and a range of male admirers on her part, there is the strong possibility of Hugh Reginald Haweis having a child with another woman.
This paper examines the preservation of parental identity by two-generations of family members, caught up in the moral conscience of late-nineteenth century Britain. While the actions of parents outside the family unit might give their children some cause for concern, it is also the intergenerational effect of the children’s upbringing that is also at question. This is manifested through the uneasy relationship between mother and daughter because neither could express their real feelings and her explicit preferences for one child over another.
The paper concludes by discussing the conflict between children and their parents as evidenced by a post-Victorian ‘historical-generational’ study, and how such conflict might be received a century later.
Architectural Design (AD), 2016
Domesticity Under Siege: Threatened Spaces of the Modern Home, 2022
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/domesticity-under-siege-9781350166127/
Flow combines cutting-edge scholarship with practitioner perspectives to address the concept of '... more 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.
Abstract: Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the... more Abstract:
Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. To this end, a variety of media and representational techniques are discussed side by side, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films. Structured into three parts and including chapters by leading scholars addressing a wide range of subjects, this book is intended to broaden understanding of French interiors, from historical, theoretical and practice-based perspectives, and provides an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.
Table Of Contents
Introduction, Anca I. Lasc, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor
Section 1: Sex, Dreams, and Desires: The Perversions of the Modern Interior
1. Impolite Reading and Erotic Interiors in Eighteenth-Century France, Georgina Downey and Mark Taylor, University of Adelaide and University of Newcastle, Australia
2. Intimate Vibrations: Inventing the Dream Bedroom, Fae Brauer, University of East London, UK
3. Angels and Rebels: The Obsessions and Transgressions of the Modern Interior, Anca I. Lasc, Pratt Institute, USA
4. Machines and Monsters: The Modern Decadent Interior as Spectacle in Huysmans's À Rebours, Emilie Sitzia, Maastricht University, Netherlands
5. La Maison Suspendue: Imaginary Solutions for an Everyday Domestic Machine, Peter Olshavsky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Section 2: Aesthetics, Anxiety, and Identity: Reproducing a Decadent Domesticity
6. The Interiorization of Identity: Portrait Busts and the Politics of Selfhood in Pre- and Early Revolutionary France, Ronit Milano, Tel Aviv University, Israel
7. A Portable Keyhole into the Fictional Apartment Building: The Interiors of Félix Vallotton and Émile Zola, Karen Stock, Winthrop University, USA
8. The Fin-de-siècle Poster: A Healthy Modern Stimulus in the French Interior, Katherine Brion, University of Michigan, USA
9. Mode of a Modern Muse: Fashion and Interior in Édouard Vuillard's Paintings of Misia Natanson, Jess Berry, Griffith University, Australia
10. The Decadent Interior as Modern Lesbian Aesthetic, Elizabeth Melanson, University of Delaware, USA
11. Mallet-Stevens, Modern Design and French Cinema, Nieves Fernández Villalobos, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain
Section 3: Intimacy, Longing and Performance: The Consumption and Display of the Celebrity Home
12. Staging Domesticity in La Revue Illustrée's Photo-Interviews: Belle Époque Celebrity Homes in the Periodical Press, Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University, USA
13. Hôtel Baronne Salomon de Rothschild 1872-1878: The Imprint of a Legacy, Linda Stevenson and Susan Tate, University of Florida, USA
14. 'Un Bel Atelier Moderne': The Montparnasse Artist at Home, Louise Campbell, Warwick University, UK
15. Housing the New Dandy: Designing Lifestyle in Monsieur Magazine, 1920-1924, John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
16. 'Fashions in Living': The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 4, Route du Champs d'Entraînement, Paris, Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
17. 'Si ma cuisine m'était comptée': Paris Match and the Salon des arts ménagers during the Fourth Republic, Guillaume De Syon, Albright College, USA
More Info: co-edited with Anca I. Lasc and Georgina Downey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
http://www.bloomsbury.com/au/designing-the-french-interior-9780857857798/
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Architectural Design, 2016
Choice Reviews Online, 2013
Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media, 2015
This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early Modernism and links it to... more This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early Modernism and links it to the socio-political and technological context of each period. The theme of patterns and its applications is a suitable one through which to rethink architecture’s values about making and living in relation to theories, ideals and priorities. A comparative examination of patterns further prompts revisiting concepts, notions, models and problematics of Twentieth-century architecture, this present time through a computational framing. In respect, this paper first draws upon systemic, structural, geometric and relational patterns developed since early Modernism; then, it delves into dynamic and adaptive patterns employed during late Modernism to respond to the emerging challenges of urban life. It is with the advent of computing that late Modernism’s aspirations have found a strong advocate by which to support complex pattern thinking, adding a cross-scientific perspective into architecture...
Nexus Network Journal, 2018
Journal of Design History, 2017
Nexus Network Journal, 2021
This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early modernism and links it to... more This paper traces the evolution of patterns in architecture since early modernism and links it to the socio-political and technological context. The theme of patterns and its applications is a suitable one by which to rethink architecture’s values about making and living in relation to theories, ideals and priorities. A comparative examination of patterns further prompts to revisit concepts, notions, models and problematics of twentieth-century architecture, this present time through the computational framing. In respect, this paper first draws upon systemic, structural, geometric and relational patterns developed since early modernism; then, it delves into dynamic and adaptive patterns employed during late modernism to respond to the emerging challenges of urban life. It is with the advent of computing that late modernism’s aspirations have found a strong advocate by which to support complex pattern thinking, adding a cross-scientific perspective into architecture’s discourse.
Nexus Network Journal, 2019
This paper argues that recent topological expressions of surface in architecture have an intellec... more This paper argues that recent topological expressions of surface in architecture have an intellectual lineage to late-modernism. Several key developments of that era challenged the limitations of a simplifed Cartesian understanding of form. This paper commences with a discussion of Cartesian geometry in Modernism, relative to innovations in the building industry that promoted constancy, repetition and standardisation. Despite the same logic being transferred to digital working platforms where the architectural elements are normally designed as geometric prisms and their immediate derivatives, an interest in computation has enabled architecture to bypass orthogonal regularity. Concepts investigated during late modernism—such as adaptability, disequilibrium, and smooth transitioning—are now central to performance and parametric-based design, examined through the interaction with data inputs, further pointing at critical updates of common software production tools.
Chronica Mundi, 2018
When the late-nineteenth century English advice writer Mary Haweis died in 1898, a number of her ... more When the late-nineteenth century English advice writer Mary Haweis died in 1898, a number of her papers were deliberately destroyed by her husband Hugh Reginald Haweis, in the belief that reputations must be protected. Much later her granddaughter confirmed that this was the case and that her uncle Stephen Haweis may also have been involved. From their accounts, many intimate family papers were destroyed so that they did not fall into the ‘wrong hands’ through the actions of executors.
It seems Mary Haweis’s husband was keen to protect family secrets that involved himself as much as his wife, and although the content is open to speculation, some letters remain indicating family turmoil caused by his scandalous behaviour which perpetuated strained relations between husband, wife and children. Although these include hints of infidelity on his part, and a range of male admirers on her part, there is the strong possibility of Hugh Reginald Haweis having a child with another woman.
This paper examines the preservation of parental identity by two-generations of family members, caught up in the moral conscience of late-nineteenth century Britain. While the actions of parents outside the family unit might give their children some cause for concern, it is also the intergenerational effect of the children’s upbringing that is also at question. This is manifested through the uneasy relationship between mother and daughter because neither could express their real feelings and her explicit preferences for one child over another.
The paper concludes by discussing the conflict between children and their parents as evidenced by a post-Victorian ‘historical-generational’ study, and how such conflict might be received a century later.
Architectural Design (AD), 2016
Architectural Design (AD), 2014
Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, 2011
Libertine erotic novellas included a number of descriptions of unfolding spaces that stage the in... more Libertine erotic novellas included a number of descriptions of unfolding spaces that stage the interior as a space designed to excite the nerves and dazzle the senses. One such text is Jean-Francois de Bastide’s La Petite Maison(1789), where the properly encoded interior advertises itself as a space for seduction. For the protagonist the plan of seduction is inscribed in the novels ‘floor-plan’, in spatial settings and dimensions between actors and the environment. Although the intention is to arrive at the boudoir, the journey is made through the narrative logics of circulation and exchange, and between house interior and the garden.
This paper examines the role of the garden as both a moment of respite and an erotically charged enclosure affecting the senses. It includes discussion of other French erotic literature including Vivant Denon’s Point de lendermain (1777) and images in which gardens play an explicitly erotic role in the narrative, or construct environments for the pursuit of individual pleasure.
Home Stories. 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors (Vitra Design Museum), 2020
A Companion to Contemporary Design Since 1945 (Wiley-Blackwell), 2019
Interior Futures (Crucible Press), 2019
In the late 1960s the architect Nicholas Negroponte proposed that the physical environment could ... more In the late 1960s the architect Nicholas Negroponte proposed that the physical environment could exhibit reflexive and simulated behaviours, an idea that has since been widely explored. Tristan d’Estrée Sterk defines “responsive architecture” as having the ability to change its form in response to changing conditions. Responsive, being adaptable or reactive, is when the environment takes an active role, initiating different degrees of change. The advent of increased computational power and technological development has enabled stimulus-response systems to be directly linked or enabled through the Internet of Things. Since Negroponte, computers have become faster, cheaper, smaller, and capable of being injected into very small objects. This chapter discusses this aspect of dynamic architecture, relative to design experiments undertaken in inhabitable and operable environments.
Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity (Bloomsbury), 2018
Architectural research about country homes is often focused on the genealogy of their occupants a... more Architectural research about country homes is often focused on the genealogy of their occupants and/or their place in the history of architecture. Much of the latter is based on an examination of the design typologies, development, and alterations to the extant fabric, as well as on discussion of the attributes of artifacts identified with the home. In the rural Australian context, while this adoption of a "style" might have some resonance with geography and climate, it was also informed by imported architectural ideas that took hold during the period of occupation of rural landscapes in the mid- to late nineteenth century. These early squatters and settlers mostly reflected their usual British heritage in the transplantation and overlay of domestic classicism onto the landscape. One issue with this form of architectural classification is that it focuses on the house "type" and creates an object-centered approach to modes of inhabitation, while overlooking the very actions and events that characterize their occupation. The house as an object with utilitarian function repeated across the landscape reinforced the signs of its legality as "an Australian country house for an Australian country gentleman" (Lucas 1987: 88-9). Argued this way, such objects may be considered to conform to a standard model of house (albeit with Australian influences), which nonetheless does little to illuminate the intangible lives of the place and its occupants or the events that contributed to these lives.
Architectures of Display: Department Stores and Modern Retail (Routledge), 2018
Die Zugezogenen Elmgreen & Dragset, 2017
Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury), 2015
Oriental Interiors Design, Identity, Space (Bloomsbury), 2015
Domestic Interiors: Representing Homes from the Victorians to the Moderns (Bloomsbury), 2013
The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design (Bloomsbury), 2013
Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior: from the Victorians to Today (Berg), 2011