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Rethinking design and interiors [[electronic resource] ] : human beings in the built environment / / Shashi Caan



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Autore: Caan Shashi Visualizza persona
Titolo: Rethinking design and interiors [[electronic resource] ] : human beings in the built environment / / Shashi Caan Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Laurence King Pub., 2011
Edizione: 1st edition
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
Disciplina: 729
Soggetto topico: Interior architecture
Architectural design - History
Architecture, Modern
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking design and interiors  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78067-087-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790144103321
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