Deborah Schneiderman

Deborah Schneiderman is a Professor of Interior Design at Pratt Institute. She is also a registered architect and the principal and founder of deSc: architecture/design/research, a Brooklyn based research practice. Schneiderman’s scholarship and teaching explore the emerging fabricated interior environment and its materiality. Her research has been widely published and includes the books Inside Prefab: the Ready-Made Interior (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012), The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History (McFarland, 2014) an architectural graphic novel style history (illustrated by Bishakh Som), and the edited volumes Textile, Technology and Design: From Interior Space to Outer Space (co-edited with Alexa Griffith Winton, Bloomsbury, 2016) & Interiors Beyond Architecture (co-edited with Amy Campos, Routledge, 2017). She has also published several book chapters in edited volumes including The Interior Architecture Theory Reader (Routledge 2016) and The Handbook of Design for Sustainability (Bloomsburry 2013), in addition to articles in academic journals including, Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, The Journal of Interior Design, and Home Cultures.