University of Brighton

Faculty Member, Architecture and Design

Senior Lecturer Interior Architecture

Brighton University

About

Graeme Brooker is a senior lecturer in Interior Architecture. He has practised and studied Interior Design in both London and Manchester, receiving his Masters Degree in 1995 with distinction for the project ‘The room and the city’. Between 1997 and 2004 he taught Interior Architecture at Cardiff before moving to Manchester where, between 2004 and 2010, he was the programme Leader of both the BA and MA Interior programmes as well as the leader of the Centre for Design Research.

Graeme Brooker’s research interests are focussed on the cultural, historical and philosophical implications of reusing existing spaces and buildings. He has written and published numerous books, papers, articles and reviews on this subject, including the highly acclaimed ‘Rereadings’, (2005), recognised as a key text in interior architecture and design publications. He is a commissioning editor for the publisher Ashgate and he is also a member of the editorial advisory board of the magazine ‘Interiors: Design: Architecture: Culture’ published by BERG. He is the co-founder of Interior Educators (IE), the national subject association for interiors courses in the UK and he was its inaugural chair from 2006-8. He was re-elected as its director in April 2010.  He is currently working on a number of publications including a reader on Interiors for Routledge, an edition of commissioned essays on the interior, for Berg and a book on a History of Interiors, for Laurence King. All are due to be published in 2012/13.


Research Interests

Graeme Brooker’s research is focussed on the theories, histories, processes and practices of the creation of interior space. These includes:

- Building reuse
- Histories, processes and theories of Interiors and spatially related site-specific constructed environment disciplines ranging from art installation to architecture
- Sustainability, material ecologies and ‘superuse’ in building
- Questions of spatial identity via the realisation of program and material economies
- The development and substantiation of the perception and profession of the discipline of Interiors
- Pedagogy in the design of interior space
- Questions of spatial representation by digital and analogue methods.

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