The Interiors of Social Media

Architecture, Space, and Technology in the 21st Century

The Interiors of Social Media

Architecture, Space, and Technology in the 21st Century

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How is social media reshaping architecture? What can platforms like Instagram, Twitch, Pinterest, and TikTok tell us about the spaces we inhabit?

The Interiors of Social Media is the first book to explore the relationship between architecture, interiors, and social media, guiding us through today's digital landscape to reveal where the virtual and physical worlds meet.

From influencer bedrooms and gaming setups to humanitarian shelters, pet influencer homes, and porn rooms, Javier Fernández Contreras reveals how social media does not merely depict interiors, but actively scripts new spatial types: homes that are both private and hyper-public, domestic yet performative, and material yet algorithmic. By mapping platform spatialities and tracing the themes that connect them, he examines interiors as sites of consumerism, display, and mediatization-environments that expose the ethical, political, and ecological implications of 21st-century digital culture.

Drawing on architecture, media studies, and digital humanities, The Interiors of Social Media offers a critical lens on how online interactions are woven into everyday life-and invites us to rethink architecture in the age of the algorithm.

Foreword

1. Instagram, Typology, and Architecture
2. Screens Within Screens: The Interiors of Twitch
3. Rooms, Pins, and Boards: The Hyper-interiors of Pinterest
4. TikTok: Vertical Editing
5. Humanitarianism, Architecture, and Social Media
6. Pet Influencers: Animal Portraiture, Domesticity, and Social Media
7. Unboxing Roblox: Architecture, Urbanism, and Video Games
8. Porn Rooms: Ultimate Interiority

Afterword, Marina Otero Verzier
Index

Product details

Published	20 Aug 2026
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	224
ISBN	9781350537446
Imprint	Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations	89 color illus
Dimensions	216 x 138 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Javier Fernández Contreras

Javier Fernández Contreras is an architect and arc…

This book lays the foundation for new lines of research, new pedagogical approaches, and new ways of practicing architecture that critically engage with the spatial logics of social media as an integral part of contemporary architectural culture.

Marina Otero Verzier, GSAPP, Columbia University, USA
Innovative, this book offers a fascinating reflection – both in words and images - on the multifaceted relationship between social media platforms and architecture. It will no doubt become an essential reference for the many students and researchers interested in better understanding our contemporary relationship to space.

Léa-Catherine Szacka, University of Manchester, UK
With a sharp and original synthesis of media studies and architectural theory, Javier Fernández Contreras offers one of the first systematic frameworks for understanding how social media is redefining domestic space.

Davide Tommaso Ferrando, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy