Shaping Interior Space, 2nd Edition, emphasizes the impact that designers make through their spatial compositions and design manipulations. Intended for intermediate and advanced students focusing on commercial design, the text covers strategies for creating interior environments that work as a total system to enhance the experience of users. It places the emphasis on design virtues other than function and beauty to more fully address the designer's role in providing appropriate amounts of order, enrichment, and expression.

"Shaping Interior Space, 3rd Edition, emphasizes the impact that designers make through their spatial compositions and design manipulations. Intended for intermediate and advanced students, the author covers strategies for creating interior environments that work as a total system to enhance the experience of the user. The text places the emphasis on design virtues other than function and aesthetics to more fully address the designer's role in providing appropriate amounts of order, enrichment, and expression. Based on the ten principles introduced in the first chapter, the new edition's reorganization continues to be driven by the sequential presentation of the book's themes and not by the strict sequence of steps in the design process. The revised organization of the table of contents addresses what designers need to know and what designers need to do for their clients"--

Shaping Interior Space, 3rd Edition, emphasizes the experiential contributions of interior design. Intended for all design students, the author covers strategies for creating interior environments that work as a total system to enhance the experience of the user. The book is organized into three parts, a background part introduces ways of designing for experience and reviews some important design principles and strategies. Part Two focuses on the three experiential goals that form the backbone of the book, order, enrichment, and expression. These serve as overall umbrellas that capture the many dimensions of users' experiences in the built environment. Part Three is devoted to design process. The process is broken up into understanding, ideation, and development and covers many tasks performed during the early and intermediate stages of design.

- Advanced spatial design concepts and composition strategies for commercial spaces - Capsules that feature supplementary information about theories and research related to the book's topics - Case studies of selected current projects by prominent designers - End-of-chapter review questions and exercises - Numerous diagrams, plans, and photographs to help illustrate concepts - Instructor's Guide provides a recommended schedule and suggestions for using the text as a teaching tool in a studio class

General Principles - Mastering Interior Design - People in Buildings - Interior Place and Its Components - The Basics of Space Establishing the Design - Understanding - Ideation Developing the Design - Order - Enrichment - Expression Completing the Design - Resolution - Modifiers of Interior Space - Diagrams and descriptions of variations within building types highlight the importance of understanding the specific personalities of clients and projects - Material on clients' mission statements and goals and strategies to use during the programming phase of a project, including corporate culture - Section on design and concept statements, which covers the use and verbal articulation of character concepts - Topics about the treatment and challenge of self-image, corporate identity, and branding - Instructor's Guide provides a recommended schedule and suggestions for using the text as a teaching tool in a studio class

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