The essays presented in this volume illuminate the material culture of discomfort as it accrues to architecture and its history. This episodic analysis speaks to a range of disciplinary fields and interdisciplinary subjects, extending our understanding of the domestication of interiors (and objects, cities and ideas); and the conditions under which – by intention or accident – they discomfort.
David Ellison
is Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on the literary and cultural histories of Victorian domesticity.Andrew Leach is Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia. Among his books are What is Architectural History? (2010), The Baroque in Architectural Culture 1880–1980 (2015, with John Macarthur and Maarten Delbeke) and Rome (2016).