Book Launch and conference: A Nocturnal History of Architecture by Javier Fernández Contreras, Head of the Interior Architecture Department (HEAD – Genève)

Following the success of various international conferences, this book is a chronological first attempt at A Nocturnal History of Architecture, taking readers on an epic journey through more than 2000 years of entanglements between night and spatial design across different continents and geographies. Expanding our understanding of what architecture at night was like through a range of historical periods and what it could become, the book hopes to show how the night is a laboratory for the development of new ways to consider space and, ultimately, our concept of living. From the elusive darkness of Greek temples to the constantly illuminated American suburbia, and the presence of the moon in classic Japanese aesthetics to the architecture of Italian nightclubs, what emerges is how the identity of humans across ages and cultures are all inseparable from the night.

A Nocturnal History of Architecture is part of the research project Scenes de nuit at HEAD – Genève.

Edited by: Javier Fernández Contreras, Vera Sacchetti, and Roberto Zancan
Contributions by: Sébastien Grosset, Efrosyni Boutsikas, Maria Shevelkina, Murielle Hladik, Maarten Delbeke, Amy Chazkel, Lucía Jalón Oyarzun, Carlotta Darò, Yan Rocher, Alexandra Sumorok, Chase Galis, Cat Rossi, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Hilary Orange, Nick Dunn, and Youri Kravtchenko
Spector Books

HOUSE OF SWITZERLAND
Book launch and conference
Wednesday, April 17th at 18:30 

Media day
Monday April 15th, from 11am to 5pm 
c/o Casa degli Artisti
Via Tommaso da Cazzaniga
Angolo Corso Garibaldi 89/A
Milano (M2 Moscova) 

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Interior Ecologies

The Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) is a full-time, two-year graduate program that delves into interior architecture at the intersection of space, ecology, and media. Space design is viewed as multidimensional, articulating the diversity of interiors, environments, and multispecies that configure reality along various paths and scales, from material to virtual, and from local to global.

MAIA addresses both the responses to contemporary environmental and societal challenges (circular economy, carbon footprint) and the implications of new ecological paradigms (post-human, more-than-human) for interior architecture as a discipline in all its professional dimensions—space design, product design, new media, research, and curatorial and editorial practices. The professional dimension of the program includes full-scale project realizations and multidisciplinary training that explore new interior ecologies.