Interior Design

Lays out a five-step procedure that teams can follow when programming any building or series of buildings, from a small house to a hospital complex.

The environmental impact of interior architecture and design practice is immense, and this book highlights the need for designers to adapt the way they work and relearn the lessons lost in order to make their designs fully sustainable.

This book shows how to approach space planning in a way that ensures all considerations are met. It has been revised to reflect the latest developments in sustainable and universal design, including coverage of daylighting, benchmarking, LEED system standards, and green code issues.

"Introduces designers to the principles and practice of designing for all people. From the foundations of accessibility and aging to the practice of designing interiors, products, housing and transportation systems, all aspects of this growing field are explored."

Includes the history and evolution of interior design, foundational concepts, and current trends in sustainability and green design, building codes, universal design, and building information models.

Examines how designers conduct research into commercial and residential spaces and use this research to achieve optimal design solutions.

Charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people. It draws together contributions from internationally leading academics and designers to demonstrate the latest thinking and research on the design of products, technologies, environments, services and experiences for wellbeing.

Essays by scholars and professionals, from fields such as policy and law, Health and Well-being for Interior Architecture asks readers to consider climate, geography, and culture alongside human biology, psychology, and sociology.

How does a room affect an occupant's behavior and well-being? How does a building influence its residents' health? This book explores these questions with an in-depth look at psychosocial responses to the built environment.

This book draws together emerging topics of making that span primary forms of craftsmanship to digital fabrication in order to theoretically and practically analyze the innovative and interdisciplinary relationship between digital fabrication technology and interior design.

Interior Design Masters contains 300 biographical entries of people who have significantly impacted design. Global in its coverage, the book is richly illustrated with over 600 black-and-white and color photographs.

Proposes an expanded impact for interior design that transcends the inside of buildings, analysing significant interiors that engage space outside of the disciplinary boundaries of architecture.

Examples of narrative spaces, such as exhibitions, brand experiences, urban design and socially engaged participatory interventions in the public realm, are explored to show how space acts as a medium of communication through a synthesis of materials, structures and technologies, and how particular social behaviours are reproduced or critiqued through spatial narratives. This book will be of interest to scholars in design studies, urban studies, architecture, new materialism and design practitioners in the creative industries.