Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior

Institute of Architecture and Design invites to an open lecture with Professor Penny Sparke: Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior.

This lecture will provide an overview of the ways in which, in the era of modernity up the present day, inside nature has been used for a variety of purposes. 
At the same time it has continually acted as a memory of life before industrialisation and urbanisation; as a form of therapy; and as a means of improving theenvironment. While huge disruptions have occurred in the history of design over that period - Victorian historicism gave way to modernism and thence to late- and post-modernism - nature inside has consistently played important roles in our inside spaces, both private and public