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Rethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment /

"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-f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caan, Shashi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Laurence King, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 stereotypes
  • 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 identification of qualitative design factors
  • Epilogue: out from within.