Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

The world and the people living in it are increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession addresses 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 epilogue looks at such future concerns as population growth and sustainability and suggests how the design profession can confront these challenges.

Rethinking Design and Interiors is a fascinating exploration of how art and science can come together for the benefit of those who inhabit the built environment.

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Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

The world and the people living in it are increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession addresses 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 epilogue looks at such future concerns as population growth and sustainability and suggests how the design profession can confront these challenges.

Rethinking Design and Interiors is a fascinating exploration of how art and science can come together for the benefit of those who inhabit the built environment.

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Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

by Shashi Caan
Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

Rethinking Design and Interiors: Human Beings in the Built Environment

by Shashi Caan

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Overview

The world and the people living in it are increasingly and rapidly being affected by environmental and technological changes. It is imperative that the design profession addresses 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 epilogue looks at such future concerns as population growth and sustainability and suggests how the design profession can confront these challenges.

Rethinking Design and Interiors is a fascinating exploration of how art and science can come together for the benefit of those who inhabit the built environment.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780672359
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: 08/22/2011
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
File size: 24 MB
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About the Author

Shashi Caan was Chair of Interior Design at Parsons in New York from 2002 to 2006. She is a founder and principal of The Collective (a US and UK-based design and interiors practice). At the forefront of advocating the role of design in society, Caan is President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) and a former Chair and current Executive Committee member of the International Design Alliance (IDA).

Table of Contents

Picture credits 4

Author's acknowledgments 5

Preface Susan S. Szenasy 6

Introduction 8

The Search for Shelter 11

Shelter's Human Roots

The Lost Origins of Building

Reclaiming the Past

Being 35

Interior Space and the Second Skin

Extensipns of Self

The Un-Universal Man

Design for Basic Human Needs (Measures of Man)

Design for Well-Being

Inside 81

The Emergence of Prevailing Stereotypes

The Psychology Analogy

Empirical Knowledge

Designing Habitable Space

Design 119

Toward a New Design

Acknowledging 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 167

Endnotes 182

Further reading 193

Index 198

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