Igor P Siddiqui
Igor Siddiqui is an architect, design scholar, and educator best known for simultaneously engaging design practice, scholarship, and pedagogy. Siddiquis workvariably manifested as objects, images, texts, and eventsexamines a broad range of situationally specific questions, with the overarching aim of linking design experimentation to public engagement. He is interested in the role that interiors play in architectural experiments, while also advocating for the value of experimentation in interiors as a distinct field of theoretical and applied knowledge. Siddiquis 2025 book Oblique Experiments: Claude Parents Architectural Installations (19691975) is one of the first English-language monographs dedicated to the French avant-garde architect Claude Parent and is the first comprehensive study of his experimental interior installations from the 1970s, known as practicables. He also recently edited Interior Experiments, a special themed triple-issue volume of Interiors: Design/Architecture/Culture. The journal, for which Siddiqui has served as Editor-in-Chief, Co-Editor, and Associate Editor since 2016, has become one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed publications in the field worldwide.
