Composing Architecture and Interior Design: a guide for architectural synthesis

The main outstanding feature is the clear and structured way, with diagrams, physical model photos and descriptive text, with which the book explains how to compose architectural and interior design spaces step by step. It also focuses and explains how to use contemporary architectural techniques such as folding surfaces or curve manipulation - that are now found in a number of built or academic projects globally- from the first years of architecture and interior design studies. What is particularly interesting is that there currently are no architecture or interior design books that actually show how to compose space.

The book demonstrates different methods that can also eventually be combined (such as combing a “Fold” with “Curves”) in order to form space with greater complexity and qualities, once the students follow the examples of each chapter.

Another characteristic is that this basic knowledge book will also help students that are interested in exploring digital and parametric design methods in the future of their studies will get exposed to a design thinking of transformations and iterations (which is the base of digital and parametric design thinking) without having to learn any software, since all the examples illustrated are using handmade physical models.

Simos Vamvakidis holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and a degree in Architecture from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also holds a Master's in Architecture degree (MArchII) from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). His teaching experience inclu-des architecture schools in the UK, Greece and Lebanon, where he taught 4th- and 5th year design students as a Lecturer and as a Visiting Assistant Professor.