TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caan, Shashi
TI  - Rethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment
SN  - 1856697568
U1  - 721 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London
PB  - Laurence King Pub. Ltd.
N1  - CONTENTS Picture credits  4 Author's acknowledgments  5 Preface by Susan S. Szenasy  6 Introduction  8 The Search for Shelter  11 Shelter's Human Roots The Lost Origins of Building Reclaiming the Past Being  35 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  81 The Emergence of Prevailing Stereotypes The Psychology Analogy Empirical Knowledge Designing Habitable Space Design  119 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  167 Endnotes  182 Further reading  193 Index  198
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