MODU: Field Guide to Indoor Urbanism dismantles the binary of inside and outside, tracing how interior space and urban environment condition one another across three cities on three continents.
About This Book
Published by interdisciplinary design studio MODU, this reader frames interior design not as a discipline sealed off from the city, but as an extension of it. Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem move between New York, Rome, and Tokyo to examine how geographic, environmental, and urban forces press into interior space — and how designed interiors, in turn, reshape our understanding of the urban. The result is a hybrid framework that refuses fixed boundaries between architecture, interior, and city. Essential reading for designers working across scales and anyone rethinking the relationship between built environment and interior urbanism.
Key Features
- 208 pages of research, essays, and documentation of original design projects
- Authors: Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem of MODU
- Case studies drawn from New York, Rome, and Tokyo
- Published by Hatje Cantz Verlag
What You'll Discover
- How MODU's practice dissolves the interior/exterior binary, repositioning architecture as continuous with its environment rather than separate from it
- The way three cities — New York, Rome, and Tokyo — each produce distinct conditions that test and complicate the concept of indoor urbanism
- A design methodology that treats environment not as backdrop but as active participant in the shaping of interior space
- Original MODU projects presented as propositions for a new kind of hybrid spatial practice that bridges urban scale and interior detail
About the Author
Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem are the founders of MODU, an interdisciplinary design studio whose research and practice span architecture, interior design, and urbanism. Their work investigates the spatial and environmental conditions that connect interior space to the broader urban world.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 185 x 251 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783775751186
- Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, interior designers, and urban theorists interested in cross-scalar thinking, the boundaries between interior and urban space, and design practice that moves fluidly between disciplines.