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Architecture d’intérieur

From greenhouses to botanic facilities and from data centres to automated interiors, never before in history has architecture produced so many interiors for the non-human, challenging disciplinary notions on tectonics, light, comfort and entire regulatory frameworks

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Institute for Postnatural Studies. A Green Jade Lake, Centro Cibeles Madrid, 2021 - © Asier Rua

Once designed for and with the human, contemporary interiors have instead become exponentially complex materialisations where the politics of our present moment are played out. Ultimately, who are they for?

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HEAD - HEPIA. Archipelago Architectures, Geneva. 2021 © HEAD - Genève. Michel Giesbrecht

Titled Decentring the Human, the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) at HEAD – Genève is a research-oriented graduate programme exploring the entanglements between interior spaces, environments and media

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Space Duality - Studio Simon Husslein 2019 - HEAD MAIA © Emily Bonnet

This involves not only solutions to environmental challenges, but above all the study of the ecosystemic relations between non-living and living organisms (including humans) which is crucial for the discipline of interior architecture

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Nocturnal Still Life. Studio Youri Kravtchenko 2021 - HEAD MAIA © Michel Giesbrecht