In this article, which originally appeared on BD, Nicholas de Klerk (a London-based Associate Architect at Aukett Swanke) reviews The Public Interior as Idea and Project ? a new publication by the Netherlands-based Canadian artist, architectural historian and educator Mark Pimlott.

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In this article, which originally appeared on BD, Nicholas de Klerk (a London-based Associate Architect at Aukett Swanke) reviews The Public Interior as Idea and Project ? a new publication by the Netherlands-based Canadian artist, architectural historian and educator Mark Pimlott.Mark Pimlott's new book, The Public Interior as Idea and Project (2016), expands on prior publications, notably Without and Within (2007). In this earlier book, Pimlott explored the concept of a ?continuous interior??examining repetitive spaces which share characteristics?for example, shopping malls and airports, and which, collectively, set about the urbanisation of the American territory.
Public Interior is no less ambitious. It looks closely at the development of a series of themes?the garden, the palace, the ruin, the shed, the machine and the network?all of which formed the subject of a series of lectures given to Masters Students in Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Through these themes, Pimlott examines different types of interior spaces, which are considered public, not necessar...