Interior Design Books

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11. Daylighting, Architecture and Health

    By Mohamed Boubekri

    Daylighting, Architecture and Health examines the relationship between natural light in buildings and human health, considering both psychological and physiological issues and bringing together a range of research in the field. As we are becoming increasingly conscious of global warming and pushing...

    Published August 3rd 2008 by Routledge
12. Future Office

    Edited by Christopher Grech, David Walters

    Developments in IT and the resulting knowledge-based economy have challenged traditional concepts of office design, as well as many of the larger architectural and urban design models. This book examines the implications of this revolution on current urban design and identifies potential new...

    Published December 20th 2007 by Taylor & Francis
13. On Altering Architecture

    By Fred Scott

    Bringing together interior design and architectural theory, this exciting text looks at the common practices of building alteration, reconsidering established ideas and methods, to initiate the creation of a theory of the interior or interventional design. Fred Scott examines in-depth case studies...

    Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
14. Cafes and Bars

    The Architecture of Public Display

    Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey

    Series: Interior Architecture

    The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and...

    Published August 20th 2007 by Routledge
15. Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces

    The Architecture of Seduction

    Edited by David Vernet, Leontine de Wit

    Series: Interior Architecture

    Presenting a critical and theoretical dimension to retail design, Boutiques and Other Retail Spaces links the ideas behind it to real practice in this innovative and important contribution to architectural/interior theory literature. Retail structure has been subject to a dramatic and ongoing...

    Published August 14th 2007 by Routledge
16. Flexible Housing

    By Jeremy Till, Tatjana Schneider

    Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to the changing needs of the user and accommodate new technologies as they emerge. Flexible Housing by Jeremy Till and Tatjana Schneider examines the past, present and future of this important subject through over 160 international examples. Specially...

    Published July 29th 2007 by Routledge
17. The Emergence of the Interior

    Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity

    By Charles Rice

    Taking a radical position counter to many previous histories and theories of the interior, domesticity and the home, The Emergence of the Interior considers how the concept and experience of the domestic interior have been formed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. It considers the...

    Published November 13th 2006 by Routledge
18. Housing and Dwelling

    Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

    Edited by Barbara Miller Lane

    Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture,...

    Published October 31st 2006 by Routledge
19. Designing Liners

    A History of Interior Design Afloat

    By Anne Wealleans

    This in-depth history of the interior design of ocean liners surveys the transient history of interior design in relation to the development of passenger shipping, from commissioning by the line owners, methods and sources for the original creation of designs through to its construction, use and...

    Published September 19th 2006 by Routledge
20. Housing Transformations

    Shaping the Space of Twenty-First Century Living

    By Bridget Franklin

    Series: Housing and Society Series

    Drawing together a wide range of literature, this original book combines social theory with elements from the built environment disciplines to provide insight into how and why we build places and dwell in spaces that are at once contradictory, confining, liberating and illuminating. This...

    Published June 5th 2006 by Routledge