Brinkworth: So Good So Far
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Brooker1
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Lund Humphreys
- ISBN
- 9781848222557
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first monograph in the Designing Interiors series for Lund Humphreys, a new collection devised, and edited by Brooker, that seeks to establish a series of profiles on contemporary practitioners in the field. The series aims to contribute new knowledge in the discipline through documenting the work of key practices. This first monograph documents the ideas and works of the London-based, yet international practice work of Brinkworth.
It charts the origins of the practice and documents its unique principles and processes honed through the two thousand projects they have realised in over ninety countries. Brooker undertook the interview of over fifty of their clients and staff, using these to determine a critical text approach, enabling the formulation of their values, processes and the cultures of their design principles. It combines this research with over fifty practice case studies organising them into seven chapters. Three central chapters; places, identities, communities, distinguishes their contribution to the field of interior architecture and design through the in-depth analysis of a number of innovations in twenty-four critical projects.
The significance of the series and this monograph is in its aims to outline the territories of the discipline and to evolve a larger critical discourse on interior design. It seeks to define practice as a critical form in parallel with theoretical debate. The interviews formed texts that were integrated with images to form a reflective analysis of the practice and its context. This enabled Brooker to gain a full and accurate insight into the values and ethos of the practice, as well as the responses to their work. This was a situation that enabled him to undertake an objective approach to fully understanding the practice and realising a demonstrable appraisal of their output.
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- Non-English
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