Interior architecture today operates at the intersection of physical and mediated spaces, such as those of mass communication, digital platforms, or the visual arts. If we consider any form of representation as potential architecture—from writing to photography, from drawing to film—this essay addresses contemporary interiors as "expanded media" platforms that belong to different places and temporalities, reaffirming the role of interior architecture in the construction of contemporaneity.
Javier Fernández Contreras (1982) is an architect who graduated from the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM, 2006) and holds a PhD in Advanced Architectural Projects (ETSAM, 2013). Since 2018, he has served as the director of the Interior Architecture Department at the Haute École d’Art et de Design (HEAD – Genève, HES-SO) in Geneva, where he studies the relationship between systems of representation, architecture, and media, with a specific focus on the role of interiors in the construction of contemporaneity. He is the author of the books Fragmentos de planta y espacio (2018) and The Miralles Projection (2020).
Contents
Mediated Space
Interiors as Laboratories of Modernity
Architecture in the Age of Expanded Media
