Rereadings 2: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings

About Graeme BrookerSally Stone

Professor Graeme Brooker is Head of Interiors at The Royal College of Art London. He has published widely on many aspects of the interior and in particular the reuse of existing buildings. His recent publications include Adaptations (Bloomsbury 2016) and Key Interiors Since 1900 (Laurence King 2013). He has co-edited (With Sally Stone) seven books on the interior including the highly acclaimed Volume 1 of Re-readings (RIBA 2004). He co- edited (with Lois Weinthal) The Handbook of Interior Architecture + Design (Bloomsbury 2013). He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the journals Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture (Bloomsbury) and IDEA. He is the founder and director of the charity Interior Educators (IE) the national subject association for all interior courses in the UK. Sally Stone is an internationally recognised expert on the subject of the interior and the interpretation and remodelling of the existing situation. Her writing includes published books inclusion in edited books and journals invitations to speak at international conferences and requests to direct workshops. Sally is a Reader in Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture where she is the Programme Leader for the Master of Architecture. She also leads Continuity in Architecture; a postgraduate studio for research practice and teaching which seeks to find ways to derive delightful rigorous and measured responses to complex contexts and historically sensitive environments. Sally is the co-recipient of the UK Government sponsored Heritage Heroes Award in recognition of her work to save the magnificently Brutal Preston Bus Station.