international journal of interior architecture + spatial design: Autonomous Identities

ii is the International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design.

In a global, complex, and networked society, interior architecture and its praxis are experiencing unprecedented change. Theoretical investigations, design research, and alternative explorations blend previously discrete disciplines within an emerging blurred territory.

The International Journal of Interior Architecture and Spatial Design investigates this new territory by requesting scholarship, design research, and projects that ask bold questions and propose innovative responses. Founded and stewarded by the Interior Architecture program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, and published by the University of Houston Atrium Press, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design.

Autonomous Identities, the ii journal’s inaugural issue, features scholarly design-research, visual compositions, and work that challenges disciplinary specificity. Interior architecture and spatial design are poised to transform the design disciplines, and thus, Autonomous Identities identifies tomorrow’s spatial precedents. Autonomous Identities reveals contemporary developments in design education and practice relative to the exploration of emerging materials and technologies. The issue highlights experimentation, theory, research, speculation, and innovation through its focus on collectively re-thinking ‘space’.

Autonomous Identities features cross-disciplinary work that offers an alternative perspective on space, materiality, and tectonics. Work may include, but is not limited to, spatial design, graphic design, architecture, industrial design, engineering, fashion, performance, film, and multi-media, as well as the environmental and social sciences.

Volume 1 Authors: Micheal Leighton Beaman, Amy Campos, Nick Christopher, Carey Clouse, Felicia Dean, Benjamin Dillenburger, Michael Hansmeyer, Eric Hemingway, Fumio Hirakawa, Zaneta Hong, Jenchieh Hung, Frank Jacobus, Andres Jaque, Jason S. Johnson, Matthew Johnson, Donna Kacmar, Brian Kelly, Margaret Kirk, Hans Koesters, Zachary Lamb, David Lee, Jason Logan, Marc Manack, Gregory Marinic, Kevin McClellan, Hannah Mendoza, Keith Peiffer, Ana Peñalba, Mariel Pina, Susan Rogers, Ostap Rudakevych, Igor Siddiqui, Inge Somers, Masayuki Sono, Ming Tang, Marina Topunova, Els De Vos, Adam Wells, Wing Yun, and Peter Jay Zweig