Rethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment / Shashi Caan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caan, Shashi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interior architecture.

Architectural design--History.

Architectural design.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

London : Laurence King Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The world is increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession address these developments with a new way of thinking. This book points the way for the design of interiors in this newly complex world and will be indispensable for students, practitioners, and theoreticians.The book is divided into four chapters that explore aspects of the human experience of the interior, from man's earliest search for shelter to an outline of past and current thinking on design, psychology and well-being. An epilog looks at such futur

Contents:

Rethinking Design and Interiors; Contents; Picture Credits; Author's Acknowledgements; Preface: Rethinking Design by Susan S. Szenasy; Introduction; Chapter One: The Search for Shelter; Shelter's Human Roots; The Lost Origins of Building; Reclaiming the Past; Chapter Two: Being; Interior Space and the Second Skin; Extensions of Self; The Un-Universal Man; Design for Basic Human Needs (Measures of Man); Design for Well-Being; Chapter Three: Inside; The Emergence of Prevailing Stereotypes; The Psychology Analogy; Empirical Knowledge; Designing Habitable Space; Chapter Four: Design

Toward a New DesignAcknowledging Design's Complex Nature; The Development of Experiential Knowledge; Establishing a Protocol for Phenomenological Investigations; The Identification of Qualitative Design Factors; Epilogue: Out from Within; Endnotes; Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78067-087-7

OCLC:

803924170