Interiors and their temporalities: Etching time into Modernist Materiality (original) (raw)

Interiors, 2015

Abstract

In reaction to Marvin Trachtenberg's claim that modernist architecture is essentially atemporal and even "chronicidal", this special issue aims to chart the temporal dimension of buildings and interiors in the modernist period. Next to the logic of a timeless atemporality, we argue that they manifest different “temporal regimes” which are shaping the multiple rituals and practices by which relations between past, present and future moments are structured. The contributions to this special issue explore different kinds of interior spaces that play a crucial role in the modernist imagination: the lobby in the grand hotel, the therapeutic spaces of the sanatorium and the psychiatric hospital, the house of the artist-writer and the domestic interior.

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