Archinect - Features

Unpacking Adaptive Reuse, Professional Practice, and Interior Architecture with RISD's Adaptive Reuse Program

2020-08-11T15:56:00-04:00

Unique to RISD's Interior Architecture Department (INTAR) is its one-year post-professional Master of Arts in Adaptive Reuse program. In this feature we take a closer look at the mission and goals for the students of Archinect’s newest School Partner. According to Interior Architecture Department Head Liliane Wong, "The program emphasizes the importance of understanding and respecting the context of the existing structure and making design interventions that contribute to the layers of history embedded in our built environment."

To learn more Archinect spoke with Wong, Graduate Program Director Stefano Corbo, and several current students and alumni from the MA Adaptive Reuse program to learn about their experiences and program takeaways. Together we explore the program's mission and how students are prepared to develop expertise in adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and architectural interiors.

In Focus: Ema Peter, a Master of Visual Narrative Through Light and Shadow

2019-05-17T13:10:00-04:00

In Focus is Archinect's recurring series dedicated to profiling the photographers who help capture architecture and who make the work of architects look that much better. In this series, we ask: What is their relationship to architecture? How do they work? What kind of equipment do they use? What obstacles have they encountered when working on these projects?

For this installment, Archinect chats with Bulgarian-born, Vancouver-based interior and architectural photographer, Ema Peter. A well-seasoned architectural photographer, Peter's detailed approach to capturing buildings has deemed her a household name in the architecture community. She has worked with the industry's most celebrated architects who praise her intuitive approach to photography. By blending her passions of photojournalism and architecture, Peter creates stunning visual narratives through light and shadow. Being a woman in the industry, she has learned to push through as an artist by challenging the mundane and tak...

#ArchinectMeets @decorhardcore

2018-12-21T10:58:00-05:00

#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.

Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. While we use our own account, @Archinect, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform.

We spoke to Ksenia Shestakovskaia about their Instagram, @decorhardcore. Decoration may be a field associated with elegance and restraint, but the world exposed by @decorhardcore is one of extravagance and indulgence. It is a world that can yield either restraint or transgression, but at its most extreme, in the words of of Shestakovskaia, "Hardcore is not for everybody."

Stepping Into the Authentic Interiors of Smith Hanes Studio

2017-12-11T12:20:00-05:00

Atlanta-based Smith Hanes Studio specializes in telling stories through interior architecture with an organic and holistic approach to design. The studio is known for translating the farm fresh, California wine country style to the Southeast.

In this Small Studio Snapshot we chat with Smith Hanes on the importance of developing key relationships with fabricators, the firm's recent expansion to Nashville, and developing a space that feels real.

Student Works: Fantasy and reconstructed realities in MIARD's "Interior Atmospheres"

2014-07-30T17:56:00-04:00

Sometimes, 3D models and sectional diagrams aren’t the best means for an architect to communicate their design. Sometimes fantasy and memoir take the reins, motivating a different approach run by personalized narrative, exhibited solely through images. A couple of standout theses from the Piet Zwart Institute’s Masters of Interior Architecture and Retail Design took this route, creating studies of interior spaces steeped in memory and new possibilities.

Student Works: "[X]City: Making Interior Cities" from the Piet Zwart Institute

2014-03-20T16:59:00-04:00

Focusing on a defunct submarine wharf in the Port of Rotterdam, students in the Masters of Interior Architecture and Retail Design program at the Piet Zwart Institute explored whether interior design can give way to urban redevelopment. As part of last fall's [X]City studio, students proposed a spectrum of redevelopment strategies for the wharf, varying from commercial to artistic to recreational.