The focus of interior design has shifted, over the centuries, as successive waves of technological innovation have taken effect.
In the preindustrial era buildings consisted essentially of supporting skeletons and enclosing skins;
interior design was mostly a matter of structure and spatial organization. With the Industrial Revolution, buildings acquired sophisticated mechanical and electrical systems—in effect, artificial physiologies;
interior designers were increasingly concerned with
selecting and procuring specialized equipment and with configuring machine-powered systems to support specific activities. The early modernist
architect Le Corbusier summarized this new condition,and the attitude he took to it, by describing a house polemically as a “machine for living in.”
Now, in the twenty-first century, inexpensive microelectronics, software, and increasingly pervasive digital networks are ushering
in the age of intelligent interiors.
In the preindustrial era buildings consisted essentially of supporting skeletons and enclosing skins;
interior design was mostly a matter of structure and spatial organization. With the Industrial Revolution, buildings acquired sophisticated mechanical and electrical systems—in effect, artificial physiologies;
interior designers were increasingly concerned with
selecting and procuring specialized equipment and with configuring machine-powered systems to support specific activities. The early modernist
architect Le Corbusier summarized this new condition,and the attitude he took to it, by describing a house polemically as a “machine for living in.”
Now, in the twenty-first century, inexpensive microelectronics, software, and increasingly pervasive digital networks are ushering
in the age of intelligent interiors.
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