Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem Publish Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism

The new book explores the connection and alignment of the “outside” world with the design of interior spaces.

Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem Publish Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism

MODU, led by Architecture Section Head Phu Hoang and Associate Professor of Practice in the Architecture Section Rachely Rotem, has published Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism. The book explores the topics of indoor urbanism and architectural climate adaptation through examples from the firm’s work in New York, Rome, and Tokyo.

How does the design of interior spaces align with the world “outside,” and vice versa? Where can the boundaries between the interior and the urban be drawn? What role does the environment play in this? Led by Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem, MODU focuses on the marriage of urbanism and nature in its architectural and interior design projects, leaving behind the binary of inside and outside, and instead understanding architecture as an extension of the environment, imagining a hybrid of urban space, architecture and interior space. For this volume, Hoang and Rotem look to three major cities on different continents—New York, Rome and Tokyo—and consider examples from each of indoor urbanism and architectural climate adaptation.

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