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020 _a1856697568
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100 _aCaan, Shashi
245 _aRethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment
260 _aLondon
_bLaurence King Pub. Ltd.
_c2011
300 _a200p.
500 _aCONTENTS 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
890 _aUnited Kingdom
891 _aSchool of Interior Design, CEPT Uni.
999 _c28762
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