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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Laurence King, 2011Description: 200 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781856697569 (pbk.)
  • 1856697568 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 729 C.S.R
Online resources:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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