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“Spatial dramaturgy” – A book review

We perceive spaces in motion. As banal as this statement is, it is difficult to actually consider the processual character of spatial perception in interior design. Architectural disciplines have been discussing the relationship between movement, design and space for at least 120 years. One of the first authors was the art historian August Schmarsow in 1894 with his lecture The Essence of Architectural Creation. Since then, designers in the fields of theater, film and video games as well as theorists from anthropology, phenomenology and environmental psychology have dealt with the subject. The recently published book Raumdramaturgie: Typologie und Inszenierung von Innenräumen by architect Holger Kleine belongs in this context.

The book has four chapters. Using historical assembly buildings from Venice (chapter 1) and contemporary buildings from the last 60 years (chapter 3), the author attempts to illustrate the creative means by which a space can be staged. These creative means are compared with those used in music, theater and architectural theory (chapter 2). Holger Kleine’s aim is to work out principles, models and types that go beyond an individual case so that designers can formulate them individually in each design (chapter 4). The conceptual structure of the chapters and the connections between them are not always convincing. However, this does not detract from the reading experience, as the book does not have to be read systematically or chronologically – each chapter provides an introduction to the topic.

Interiors and landscape architecture?

Why is Garten + Landschaft presenting a book that focuses on the interiors of buildings? The reason is that the examination of space knows no disciplinary boundaries, only phenomenal ones. In other words, the phenomenon of space concerns all of today’s differentiated architectural disciplines insofar as they design spaces that fulfill functions and at the same time possess a surplus that enriches movement in space. Holger Kleine’ s Raumdramaturgie belongs to the canon of books that attempt to approach the difficult-to-grasp phenomenon of space from the perspective of the perceiver in motion.

Book

Holger Kleine: Spatial dramaturgy. Typology and staging of interiors. Birkhäuser Verlag: Basel 2018. 296 pages, 300 illustrations, German, 30.4 x 24.5 cm, hardcover, 70 euros, ISBN 978-3-0356-0432-0

Sebastian Feldhusen is a research associate at the Technical University of Berlin.