Designing Interiors
Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
Published on 2. January 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-03-032233-4 (ISBN)
Description
This introductory text offers a comprehensive overview of the basic knowledge required for the education of the professional interior designer. It emphasizes the foundation of and expertise in designing for people and their environments. The integrated approach to the profession meets the program standards of FIDER (Foundation for Interior Design Education Research). Coverage includes the technical and aesthetic areas of interior design as practical in both residential and commercial environments. The text looks at the creative processes interior designers use to recognize, organize, and solve problems is unusual in an introductory text. The direct relationship between the exterior and interior environments is covered, and the book points out increasing areas of responsibility - including building codes; heating, ventilation and air-conditioning systems; electrical systems; and basic building structural systems. Finally, it discusses global issues of energy conservation, depletion of natural resources, recycling, and the sick building syndrome, and gives full consideration to relationships and design considerations of exterior environemts to interior design.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Belmont, CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Children/juvenile
College/higher education
Young adult
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 201 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-03-032233-4 (9780030322334)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Part I: THE HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL BASES OF DESIGN. 1. Interior Design: An Introduction. 2. The Origins of Design. 3. The Evolution of Modern Design. 4. The Basic Theories of Design Composition. 5. Color and Light. Part II: PLANNING RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACES. 6. Design as a Process. 7. Programming Interior Spaces. 8. Space Planning of Residential Interiors. 9. Space Planning of Commercial Interiors. Part III: THE EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR ENVIRONMENTS. 10. Environmental Concerns, Codes, and Regulations. 11. Interior Environmental Control and Support Systems. 12. Lighting for Interiors. PART IV: INTERIOR MATERIALS, ARCHITECTURAL SYSTEMS, FINISHES, AND COMPONENTS. 13. Materials: Characteristics and Applications. 14. Architectural Systems and Interior Finishes. 15. Interior Components. Part V: FURNITURE, FURNISHINGS, AND EQUIPMENT. 16. Furniture. 17. Furnishings and Equipment. PART VI: ASPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL PRACTIVE. 18. Design Communication. 19. The Professional Practice of Interior Design: Business, Management, and the Future.