Naomi House

Naomi House is a Designer, Educator and Writer with an approach to the interior that is framed through forensic investigation. A Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture and Design and Research Coordinator at Middlesex University, she was a Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art until 2018. Naomi is an experienced academic and designer. With a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Interior Design and an MSc in Architecture from the Bartlett, UCL, she worked in practice for a number of years for clients including the RIBA, Anish Kapoor and the Tate, and has taught at the Bartlett, UCL, London Metropolitan University and Chelsea College of Art, UAL. She is currently the External Examiner for BA Interior Design at Regents University in London. Naomi’s particular expertise is in the field of interiors, contextualised within the broad landscape of architectural, environmental and theoretical discourse. Involved in the writing and development of undergraduate and postgraduate courses across the disciplines of architecture and design, she specialises in the relationship between ‘the studio’ and ‘contextual studies’, and how these might correspond to establish a rigorous field of enquiry that situates research and practice in the same space. Alongside Francesca Murialdo she was guest editor for Issue 4 IE: Studio – The Hidden Interior (2019), and has recently completed writing a monograph on the Swedish/American designer Greta Magnusson Grossman with Dr Harriet Harriss for Lund Humphries – Greta Magnusson Grossman – Modern Design from Sweden to California (2021). Naomi’s current research is in the field of architecture and feminism. She has recently edited the UK entry for Women in Architectural Education for The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture (2021) and is currently coediting 100 Women Architects (2022), RIBA that aims to identify and recognise the contributions of 100 women across the globe to the field of architecture, and in some small way to make visible these contributions to both students and practitioners alike. She is also coediting a collection of essays for the RIBA on Intersectional Space - Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene (2022) as part of a series called Design Studio. Building upon an understanding of the anthropocene as an era defined through human interference in the fundamental systems that govern our planet, this volume explores the possible spatial futures that this engenders, interrogating the meaning and significance of the term ‘post-anthropocene’ and providing an expanded definition in relation to architecture.