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• 2003 IDEA Journal
• Limits and Thresholds: On the Power of Interiority
• Di-vision/double vision
• Interior Design Criticism: Between Excess and Austerity
• (IM)MATER(IALITY) and the Black-Box Theatre as an ‘Empty Space’ of Re-production
• The Nourishing Art
• Glue and Gumption
• Raising Understanding of Indigenous Australian Culture through Creative Production in Interior Architecture
• Design, the Decoration of Culture?
• Maori Time: Notions of Space, Time and Building Form in the South Pacific
• Absolute Zero – Revealing the Void
• An Interpretative and Contextual Approach to Interior Design Education: A Study about Integrating Theory and Practice
• Shifting Between Economy and Cladding
• Between-ness: Theory and Practice within the Margins of Excess
• The NetWorkPlace™© Phenomenon: Connecting the Space of Place and the Space of Flows
• The Way of the Detail in Japanese Design
• Growing a Discipline: Evolving Learning Practices in Interior Design

Shifting Between Economy and Cladding

Julieanna Preston

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Massey University, New Zealand

Abstract: This paper probes interior lining, specifically column cladding, in light of expansive definitions of economy. A student design project foregrounds the discussion in order to reveal prevailing design attitudes on ornament and structure. Those attitudes are reconsidered by the introduction of new fabrication technology. As these works supersede dichotomous relations between excess and austere, their formation suggests new working parameters for interior design in relation to ornament, craft and technology.