This issue of 'Volume' inquires: Can a radical return to the interior provide new insights for architecture? The building crisis creates the need for the refurbishment and re-use of the existing building mass. To breathe new life back into structures, we start with their insides – shuffling, cutting dividing, rearranging space and the contents therein. Consequently, we are seeing interior architecture departments pop up everywhere, asserting themselves like landscape architects did twenty years ago. Like landscape architecture, which has added a rich body of theory to our understanding of the world, explorations in interior architecture might yield surprising and enlightening discoveries.
