Discusses size, shape, placement, function, and perception in architecture, examines its meaning and interpretation, and looks at order and aesthetics

Architecture As Art: An Esthetic Analysis

Arts & Photography

Abercrombie, Stanley

Architecture

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A Philosophy Of Interior Design (Icon Editions)

This book explores and explains the fundamentals of interior design. Because it does not emphasize current trends and fashion, its value will be long lasting.

A Philosophy Of Interior Design (ICON EDITIONS)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

In the words of the author, this book aims "to look at the elements of interior design in a way that might aid interior designers in the formulation of individual philosophies for their own work." Here, then, for practicing designers, students and interested laypersons are the fundamentals of design explored, explained and interpreted in a knowledgeable and original way. A Philosophy of Interior Design includes chapters on concepts; the duty of the interior designers; the role rooms, windows and doors play in determining the character of interior spaces; changing levels--cellars, attics, stairs, ramps, balconies and towers; the language of furniture; color and light; sound and smells; ornament and details and much more.

Philosophy Of Interior Design

Westview Press

Explore the world's top 100 office interiors! Now you can put yourself in the middle of the world's most stunning offices with Stanley Abercrombie's Corporate Interior Design. This sumptuous new volume shows you over 100 real-world masterpieces of the world's best architects and designers. You'll see a wide range of styles, from the plush headquaters of Fortune 500 companies to the funky, high-tech lairs of leading entrepreneurs. You'll also get complete details on each project, including location, specifications, costs and floor plans. The work of more than 30 firms is showcased, including such internationally known names as Genslers & Associates, Skidmore Owings & Merril, RTKL, Swanke Hayden Connell, and more. Whatever your role in architecture and design, you'll find Corporate Interior Design and eye-opening and inspiring look at the best of the best.

Corporate Interiors (Corporate Interiors Design Book Series)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Retail Reporting Corp

This book addresses interior design and decoration from the ancients to the moderns, describes the dominant influences of fashion design, and focuses on the close relationship between interior design and the architecture of our times. Chapter topics cover up-to-date stylistic developments such as neoornamentalism, postmodernism, and deconstruction; up-to-date technical developments including new composite materials, acoustic controls, and lighting types; and industry updates regarding new professional organizations, certification laws, and developments in design school accreditation. Also covered are today's “hot topics” in the field: new fire-safety and abrasion-resistance requirements for furniture and fabrics, accommodations for universal access, and issues of environmentalism. For interior designers.

Interior Design & Decoration

Whiton, Sherrill

Sociology

Prentice Hall (Sd)

Addressing interior design and decoration from the ancients to the moderns, this text describes the dominant influences of fashion design and focuses on the close relationship between interior design and the architecture of our times. With the Sixth Edition of Interior Design and Decoration, Stanley Abercrombie continues the revival of this time-tested and well-respected text—first published in 1937—to make it meet the needs of today’s teachers and students. In his second revision of Sherrill Whiton’s classic text, Abercrombie presents the full history of interior design—during all periods and throughout all regions—in a manner that facilitates easy comparisons among different times, places, and styles.

Interior Design and Decoration

Pearson

The classic presentation of interior design and decoration has been revised and updated for the new millennium...Wide in scope and rich in detail, this book offers a unified treatment of interior design and the fine arts histories. Integrating information about materials and techniques with history, the text has been updated to include the developments in technology, interior design, and safety standards of the late twentieth century. Maps and timelines, special topic boxes, and chapter summaries help students to navigate through the wealth of material, and extensive color illustrations as welt as Gilbert Werle's classic black and white drawings add visual clarity, and excitement. Each chapter begins with some consideration of various design determinants, a chronology of key periods, dynasties, rulers, and events. There is a review of artistic accomplishments, and the common characteristics of the period are summarized. Discussions of character, quality, and cross-cultural comparison provide a basis for a challenging engagement with all of the elements of interior design.

Whiton, Sherill

Discontinued 3PD

Honorable Mention, 1994 Joel Polsky Prize given by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) George Nelson (1908-1986) was a pioneering modernist who ranks with Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Eliot Noyes as one of America's outstanding designers. Nelson's office produced some of the twentieth century's canonical pieces of industrial design, many of which are still in production: the ball clock, the bubble lamp, the sling sofa. Nelson also made major contributions to the storage wall, the shopping mall, the multi-media presentation, and the open-plan office system. The author of this definitive biography was given access to Nelson's office archives and personal papers. He also interviewed more than 70 of Nelson's friends, colleagues, employees, and clients (including the late D. J. De Pree, former head of the Herman Miller Furniture Company and Nelson's chief patron) and obtained many previously unpublished images from corporate and private archives. The full range of Nelson's work is represented, from product and furniture design to packaging and graphics to large-scale projects such as the Fairchild house and the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. Because Nelson was a serious and original thinker about design issues, Abercrombie quotes extensively from his published and unpublished writings, offering provocative new material to students of design theory and philosophy. The appendixes, compiled by Judith Nasatir, include a chronology of Nelson's work, a biographical chronology, and two bibliographies: one of writings by Nelson and the other of writings about him.

George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design

Individual Artists

Mit Pr

The definitive biography of George Nelson, featuring the full range of his work, interviews, and previously unpublished images from Nelson's private archives.
George Nelson (1908-1986) was a pioneering modernist who ranks with Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, and Eliot Noyes as one of America's outstanding designers. Nelson's office produced some of the twentieth century's canonical pieces of industrial design, many of which are still in production: the ball clock, the bubble lamp, the sling sofa. Nelson also made major contributions to the storage wall, the shopping mall, the multi-media presentation, and the open-plan office system. The author of this definitive biography was given access to Nelson's office archives and personal papers. He also interviewed more than 70 of Nelson's friends, colleagues, employees, and clients (including the late D. J. De Pree, former head of the Herman Miller Furniture Company and Nelson's chief patron) and obtained many previously unpublished images from corporate and private archives.The full range of Nelson's work is represented, from product and furniture design to packaging and graphics to large-scale projects such as the Fairchild house and the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow. Because Nelson was a serious and original thinker about design issues, Abercrombie quotes extensively from his published and unpublished writings, offering provocative new material to students of design theory and philosophy.
The appendixes, compiled by Judith Nasatir, include a chronology of Nelson's work, a biographical chronology, and two bibliographies: one of writings by Nelson and the other of writings about him.

History & Criticism

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Architecture As Art: An Esthetic Analysis

A Philosophy Of Interior Design (ICON EDITIONS)

Philosophy Of Interior Design

Corporate Interiors (Corporate Interiors Design Book Series)

Interior Design & Decoration

Interior Design and Decoration

Interior Design and Decoration

George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design

George Nelson: The Design of Modern Design

A Philosophy Of Interior Design (Icon Editions)