Editing Interior architecture (section)

{{Short description|Design of a building or shelter from inside out}}
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[[File:Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Music Room 1901.jpg|thumb|right|Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Music Room, 1901]]
[[Image:Robie House Interior HABS ILL,16-CHIG,33-7.jpg|thumb|Interior of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's [[Robie House]], (1911) designed by interior architect [[George Mann Niedecken]]. In 1956, ''The Architectural Record'' selected the Robie House as "one of the seven most notable residences ever built in America."<ref>"Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture," Twombly, Robert C., John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1979, p. 384.</ref>]]
[[Image:RobieHouseWindows ChicagoIL.jpg|thumb|Window designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Robie House.]]

'''Interior architecture''' is the design of a building or shelter from inside out, or the design of a new interior for a type of home that can be fixed.  It can refer to the initial design and plan used for a building's interior, to that interior's later redesign made to accommodate a changed purpose, or to the significant revision of an original design for the [[adaptive reuse]] of the shell of the building concerned.<ref name="intar.risd">{{cite web|url=http://intar.risd.edu/|title=Interior Architecture|work=RISD Interior Architecture Graduate Department|access-date=1 October 2010|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730065634/https://interiorarchitecture.risd.edu/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The latter is often part of [[sustainable architecture]] practices, whereby resources are conserved by "recycling" a structure through adaptive redesign.

Generally referred to as the spatial art of environmental design, interior architecture also refers to the process by which the interiors of buildings are designed to address all aspects of the human use of their structural spaces. Put simply, interior architecture is the design of an interior in architectural terms.

Interior architecture may refer to:
* the art and science of [[design]]ing and erecting buildings and their interiors, along with other related physical features, by a licensed architect.
* the practice of an interior [[architect]], where architecture means to offer or render professional services in connection with the design and construction of a building's interior that has as its principal purpose relating interiors' design to human occupancy or use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/legc/bills/60th_1st/3rd_read/b115.htm |title=The Nova Scotia Legislature |work=gov.ns.ca |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721200353/http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/legc/bills/60th_1st/3rd_read/b115.htm |archive-date=2011-07-21 }}</ref>
* a general term to describe building interiors and related physical features.
* a style or method of design and construction for a building's interiors and related physical features.
* the practice engaging work on already existing interior environments, where adaptive re-use and a knowledge of architectural strategies are necessary for re-designing existing space.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=European Charter of Interior Architecture Training |url=https://ecia.net/media/610/ECIA%20Charter%202020.pdf |website=www.ecia.net}}</ref>