Rethinking design and interiors : human beings in the built environment / Shashi Caan.

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Introduction -- The search for shelter: Shelter's human roots -- The lost origins of building -- Reclaiming the past -- Being: 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: The emergence of prevailing sterotypes -- The psychology analogy -- Empirical knowledge -- Designing habitable space -- Design: Toward a new design -- Acknowledging design's complex nature -- The development of experiential knowledge -- Establishing a protocol for phenomenological investigations -- The identfication of qualitative design factors -- Epilogue: out from within.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-197) and index.

"Rethinking Design and Interiors explores the position of design in relation to our complex and ever-changing world and promotes a deeper knowledge - with input from the arts sciences, and technology - that will support design's integral role in the advancement of humankind in the twenty-first century."--Back cover.

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