Composing Architecture and Interior Design

Composing Architecture and Interior Design introduces different ways of creating architectural space. It explains how to compose architectural and interior design spaces step by step - starting in the first years of architecture and interior design studies.

The book starts with introducing different spatial configurations using basic elements such as walls, floors and ceilings in order to create spaces with different architectural characteristics, such as collective or transition spaces. Photos of physical models are graphically edited to ensure a comprehensive visual explanation. Physical models are the main tool for all architecture and interior architecture students, allowing readers to understand, relate to and copy the modelling techniques shown in each example.

Throughout the book this same approach is used, in order to explain step by step the most contemporary approaches to composing space, such as folding surfaces or combining curves. Which are already often used in contemporary practices and are globally acknowledged.

Simos Vamvakidis holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and a degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also holds a Master's in Architecture degree (MArchII) from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). His teaching experience includes architecture schools in the UK, Greece and Lebanon, where he taught 4th- and 5th-year design students as a Lecturer and as a Visiting Assistant Professor. He is the author of BIS Publishers' Innovative Architecture Strategies.

The book intends to introduce architecture and interior architecture & design students on ways of creating architectural space. The first chapter introduces students to different spatial configurations using basic elements such as walls, floors and ceilings in order to create spaces with different architectural characteristics, such as collective or transition spaces. In order to achieve that, photos of physical models are used which are graphically edited with highlighting lines and explanatory text. Physical models are the main tool for all architecture and interior architecture students, allowing readers to understand, relate and copy the modelling techniques shown in each example. The following chapters follow the same approach in order to explain step by step the most contemporary approaches of composing space such as folding surfaces or combining curves which already are often used in contemporary practices and globally acknowledged.

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