On why we should consider that the interior perspective render is art, after all : a review of literature concerning the development of perspective representations of interior spaces from the Italian Renaissance to the digital age

Abstract

In order to establish how the interior perspective render can secure for interior design the status of a legitimate art form, this review of literature will be looking into the history of representing three-dimensional interior spaces from the varied perspectives, or better yet, the evolutionary perspective of the practice of interior spatial representation itself: from painters to architects to decorators and eventually, interior designers beginning from the time interior space was first depicted, all the way to the current iteration of the interior perspective render created with the use of computer technology. Now if this ‘elevation’ may seem antithetical given the frame of reclamation most especially when one considers that this is suggestive of a return to autonomy—that divorce of form and function—that has been repeatedly levied against art in order to diminish its significance, this article will forward the necessity of such a positioning as we are catapulted into the digital age. Ambitiously, by forwarding this render as the consummate ‘end’ that encompasses the historical, theoretical, and practical facets of the practice of interior design, this review will argue how claims to its value as a work of art can be indicative of the profession’s role in reimagining spaces in a future poised for a literal iteration of the notion of a space transcending spatiality. At the most basic, this review will look into how such an elevation can secure the continuity of a practice that with its very physical, tangible quality is challenged by the inescapable reality of virtuality