Interior Urbanism: Architecture, John Portman and Downtown America

Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. Currently Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, he has previously taught at Kingston University, UK, the Architectural Association, London, UK, and the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Rice's research considers key questions of modern architecture through the interior. His book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity (2007) established the historical emergence of the domestic interior at the beginning of the nineteenth century, and charted its impact on key developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. He is co-editor of The Journal of Architecture (Routledge & RIBA), and has co-edited several collections of essays, and his own essays have appeared in AA Files (2012), and anthologies including Intimate Metropolis (2009) and Space Reader (2009).