| Description |
1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The search for shelter: Shelter's human roots -- The lost origins of building -- Reclaiming the past -- 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 -- Inside: The emergence of prevailing sterotypes -- The psychology analogy -- Empirical knowledge -- Designing habitable space -- Design: Toward a new design -- Acknowledging design's complex nature -- The development of experiential knowledge -- Establishing a protocol for phenomenological investigations -- The identfication of qualitative design factors -- Epilogue: out from within. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index. |
| Summary |
"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in the twenty-first century."--Back cover. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Interior architecture.
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Interior architecture. |
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Architectural design -- History.
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Architectural design. |
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History. |
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Architecture, Modern.
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Architecture, Modern. |
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Architecture -- Human factors.
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Architecture -- Human factors. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Caan, Shashi. Rethinking design and interiors. London : Laurence King Pub., 2011 9781856697569 (OCoLC)719428887 |
| ISBN |
1780670877 (electronic book) |
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9781780670874 (electronic book) |
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9781856697569 |
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1856697568 |
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