Rethinking design and interiors [[electronic resource] ] : human beings in the built environment / / Shashi Caan
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| Autore: |
Caan Shashi
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| Titolo: |
Rethinking design and interiors [[electronic resource] ] : human beings in the built environment / / Shashi Caan
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-78067-087-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910790144103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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