Rethinking Design and Interiors

Human Beings in the Built Environment

Shashi Caan

• Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN: 9781780672359
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

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.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics refer to picture captions

Abasto de Buenos Aires, Argentina 173

Abercrombie, Stanley 32

air conditioning 72, 72

airport terminal design 68, 112, 134

Albers, Josef 139, 140, 142, 148, 150

Alberti, Leon Battista 57

Altamira Cave, Cantabria, Spain 20

Amber Fort and Palace, Jaipur, India 104, 161

American Woman’s Home (Beecher and Stowe) 90, 91

Anasazi people 180

Anthropodino installation (Neto) 53

Architects’ Data (Neufert) 59, 63

architecture

art relationship 23–4, 25, 29, 132

building compared 22, 23–5, 84, 139

development 22–7, 31

interior design compared 8, 87, 89–94, 106, 109, 113, 133

and space 8, 37–8, 41, 43–5, 48

Arnheim, Rudolf 127

art

architecture relationship 23–4, 25, 29, 132

cave art 13, 18, 20, 21, 24, 30, 32

design relationship 21, 24, 30, 122, 127–9, 132–3, 136–7, 139, 180

interior design relationship 37, 83, 84, 88, 108

psychology relationship 106–7

art education 76, 127, 136–7, 139

Arts and Crafts movement 85, 122

Bachelard, Gaston 51, 53, 103

Band sculpture (Serra) 150

Banham, Reyner 68

Bauhaus 127, 136–7, 139...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Picture credits
• Author’s acknowledgments
• Preface by Susan S. Szenasy
• Introduction
• The Search for Shelter
• Being
• Inside
• Design
• Epilogue: Out From Within
• Endnotes
• Further reading
• Index