CONTENTS Proximities Mark - Taylor and Julieanna Preston 6 Matrix Key 14 The Partition of Space - Shirley Ardener 15 The Dialectics of Outside and Inside - Gaston Bachelard 22 The Sterility of Perfection + The Rule Breaker's Success - Billy Baldwin 26 Chromophobia - David Batchelor 31 Structures of Atmosphere - Jean Baudrillard 37 A Christian House - Catharine E Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe 43 Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries and Spatial Flows - lain Eorden 49 A Wall of Books: The Gender of Natural Colors in Modern Architecture - William W Braham 56 A House for Josephine Baker - Karen Burns 64 Bodies and Mirrors - Ann C Colley 68 Movement and Myth: the Schrb'der House and Transformable Living - Catherine Croft 75 Spatial Stories - Michel de Certeau 78 Suitability, Simplicity and Proportion - Elsie de Wolfe 82 On the Means by which Repose is Attainable in Decoration - Christopher Dresser 86 Volatile Architectures - Jim Drobnick 89 Thing-Shapes - Winka Dubbeldam 96 The Dining Room - Charles L Eastlake 101 Men's Room - Lee Edelman 103 'Decorators May be Compared to Doctors' - Emma Ferry 110 Berggasse 19: Inside Freud's Office - Diana Fuss and Joel Sanders 117 Toward a Feminist Poetics: Infection in the Sentence - Sandra M Gilbert and Susan Gubar 121 Woman's Domestic Body - Beuerly Gordon 126 Notes on Digital Nesting: a Poetics of Evolutionary Form - Mark Goulthorpe 133 Faith and Virtually: A Brief History of Virtual Reality - Christian Groothuizen 138 Thinking of Gadamer's Floor - Jacques Herzog 144 Buildings and their Genotypes - Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson 148 Household Furniture and Interior Decoration - Thomas Hope 153 From Wiener Kunst im Hause to the Wiener Werkstatte - Rebecca Houze 156 Wherever I Lay My Girlfriend, That's My Home - Lynda Johnston and Gill Valentine 162 Interiors: Nineteenth-Century Essays on the 'Masculine' and the 'Feminine' Room - Juliet Kinchin 168 Tables, Chairs, and Other Machines for Thinking - Mark Kingwell 173 On the Loss of (Dark) Inside Space - Constanze Kreiser 180 Social, Spatial and Temporal Factors - Roderick J Lawrence 184 Wiener Wohnkultur: Interior Design in Vienna, 1910-1930 - Christopher Long 187 Representing Shopping Centres and Bodies: Questions of Pregnancy - Robyn Longhurst 194 The Tyranny of Taste - Jules Lubbock 200 Streamlining: The Aesthetics of Waste - Ellen Lupton and Abbott Miller 204 The Architecture of Manners: - Henry James, Edith Wharton and The Mount Sarah Luria 213 'House Beautiful': Style and Consumption in the Home - Ruth Madigan and Moira Munro 221 Living in Glass Houses - Kevin Melchionne 228 Dust Celeste Olalquiaga 233 Colour and Method - Amedee Ozenfant 238 Ordering the World: Perceptions of Architecture, Space and Time - Michael Parker Pearson and Colin Richards 245 253 A World of Unmentionable Suffering Barbara Penner The Apartment - Georges Perec 259 The Kitchen as a Place to Be - Norman Potter 264 Making Charleston (1916-17) - Christopher Reed 270 The Clubs of St. James's: Places of Public Patriarchy - Jane Rendell 277 Rethinking Histories of the Interior - Charles Rice 284 Designing the Dinner Party - Rachel Rich 292 'Hi Honey, I'm Home' Joyce - Henri Robinson 297 Curtain Wars - Joel Sanders 303 Productions of Incarceration: The Architecture of - Daniel Paul Schreber Felicity D Scott 309 Ornament and Order - Jacques Soulillou 314 'The Things which Surround One' - Penny Sparke 323 Decorating Culture - Xiaobing Tang 328 In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki 335 Architecture and Interior: A Roam of One's Own - Mark Taylor339 Boredom and Bedroom: The Suppression of the Habitual - Georges Teyssot 345 Visitors Henry - David Thoreau 348 The Chic Interior and the Feminine Modern - Lisa Tiersten 351 Inside Fear: Secret Places and Hidden Spaces in Dwellings - Anne Troutman 356 The Pleasure of Architecture - Bernard Tschumi 360 Domestic Doyennes: Purveyors of Atmospheres Spoken and Visual - John C Turpin 368 The Lair of the Bachelor - George Wagner 375 Ultrasuede - George Wagner 380 The Historical Tradition - Edith Wharton and Ogden Codmanjr 387 Home: Territory and Identity - Macgregor Wise 391 The Material Value of Color: The Estate Agent's Tale - DJB Young 397 Index 404