‘Nothing About Interior Architecture’ explores archives, documents and design processes from projects developed by students of the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève between 2010 and 2025. Through a series of essays by practicing architects, designers and faculty members, the book questions what the discipline is and what a school could be.
Simon Husslein’s contribution ‘Echoes of the Virtual: A Journey through Space Duality’ revisits the 2019 studio ‘Space Duality’, developed in collaboration with Fondation USM. Written as a fictional narrative, the essay follows a visitor through the seven virtual worlds created by the students, each experienced through a physical installation – a rocking platform, an inclined wall, a rotating lounge, a vibrating cocoon. Moving between immersion and disorientation, the text reflects on how virtual spaces, freed from the logic of the physical world, can evoke emotion, memory and introspection.
Published by HEAD – Genève and Set Margins’.
Presented at Milano Design Week 2026, Dropcity, Milan.
Winner of AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2025.
Simon Husslein’s contribution ‘Echoes of the Virtual: A Journey through Space Duality’ revisits the 2019 studio ‘Space Duality’, developed in collaboration with Fondation USM. Written as a fictional narrative, the essay follows a visitor through the seven virtual worlds created by the students, each experienced through a physical installation – a rocking platform, an inclined wall, a rotating lounge, a vibrating cocoon. Moving between immersion and disorientation, the text reflects on how virtual spaces, freed from the logic of the physical world, can evoke emotion, memory and introspection.
Published by HEAD – Genève and Set Margins’.
Presented at Milano Design Week 2026, Dropcity, Milan.
Winner of AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2025.
Editor: Javier Fernández Contreras
Associate editors: Youri Kravtchenko, Julie Enckell Julliard
Authors: Camille Bagnoud, Ahmed Belkhodja, Valentina De Luigi, Valentin Dubois, David Fagart, Javier Fernández Contreras, Line Fontana, Jan Dominik Geipel, Jean-Pierre Greff, Simon Husslein, Youri Kravtchenko, Paule Perron, Philippe Rahm, Vera Sacchetti, Leonid Slonimskiy, Bertrand Van Dorp, Daniel Zamarbide, Roberto Zancan.
Essay: Simon Husslein, ‘Echoes of the Virtual: A Journey through Space Duality’, pp. 159–170
Book design: Bureau Vielcazat
448 pages, 180 × 260 mm, debossed softcover
Images: HEAD – Genève, Raphaëlle Mueller
Associate editors: Youri Kravtchenko, Julie Enckell Julliard
Authors: Camille Bagnoud, Ahmed Belkhodja, Valentina De Luigi, Valentin Dubois, David Fagart, Javier Fernández Contreras, Line Fontana, Jan Dominik Geipel, Jean-Pierre Greff, Simon Husslein, Youri Kravtchenko, Paule Perron, Philippe Rahm, Vera Sacchetti, Leonid Slonimskiy, Bertrand Van Dorp, Daniel Zamarbide, Roberto Zancan.
Essay: Simon Husslein, ‘Echoes of the Virtual: A Journey through Space Duality’, pp. 159–170
Book design: Bureau Vielcazat
448 pages, 180 × 260 mm, debossed softcover
Images: HEAD – Genève, Raphaëlle Mueller
