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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 Design, and published by the Advanced Spatial Design Research Group and the University of Houston Atrium Press, ii seeks to re-frame the debate and shape the contemporary dialogue of interior architecture and spatial design. ii features transdisciplinary research and collaborations that include, but are not limited to, architecture, environmental design, adaptive reuse, interiors, industrial design, fashion, furniture, film, performance, sociology, cultural studies, and the arts.Contemporary architects and designers manipulate materials into increasingly complex spatial conditions, engaging their inherent behaviors, performative capacities, cultural identities, and modular constraints as generative opportunities. Smooth, rough, porous, or impermeable--the qualitative aspects of materiality expand the parameters of what we understand as surface in the production of interior architecture, environmental design, installations, furniture, fashion, and media. Material Vocabularies, ii journal’s fourth volume, features provocative work that speculates on the future of materiality in spatial design. It collects a broad range of investigations leveraging the expanded potential for materials in the conceptualization and production of interiors, spatial design, and light-mobile-architectures. Material Vocabularies highlights historical, theoretical, speculative, and built work promoting an awareness of materials as primary shapers and makers of space. This volume endeavors to reveal hybridized agencies, methodologies, and pedagogies in design education, scholarship, research, and practice revealing a global paradigm shift in the role of materials in the design process.Authors include Craig Babe, Sofia Bennani, Alireza Borhani, Blaine Brownell, Joseph Choma, Joe Colistra, Chris Cottrell, Sarah Deyong, Nerea Feliz, David Fern, Tamie Glass, Peter P. Goche, Frank Jacobus, Negar Kalantar, Ji Young Kim, Chris Knapp, Matina Kousidi, Seung Teak Lee, Zeke Leonard, Mi Jung Lim, Marc Manack, Gregory Marinic, Kevin Moore, Jonathan Nelson, Clay Odom, Andrew Phillip Payne, Natasha Perkins, Emina Petrovic, Lisa Phillips, Julieanna Preston, Deborah Schneiderman, Jason Scroggin, Igor Siddiqui, Alexandra Singer-Beider, Akari Takebayashi, and Jen Wong
