Interior Design: Books

This book serves as a logical road map to assist the researcher in finding a topic, researching, organizing, arguing, and composing the review. The 4th edition has been updated and expanded to improve ease of use.

Manual Drafting for Interiors is an essential reference for interior designers learning how to manually draft scaled floor plans, elevations, sections, and three-dimensional drawings. Clearly explaining techniques and methods, it begins with an explanation of drafting tools and their various uses, and then presents instructions and illustrations that indicate how to complete increasingly more difficult drafting conventions. Additionally, readers will learn drawing techniques for indicating various materials, symbols for coordinating related drawings, and architectural lettering.

More Dream Homes contains a wealth of inspiration for lovers of interior design or anyone seeking to make their dream home a reality.

Design thinking is a human-centered approach to finding real innovative solutions to tough problems. The 5th edition includes charts, images, exercises, and templates with new sections on innovation, integrative thinking and much more.

Today's interior designer is a professional who understands and practices the principles of good design and calls upon a wide range of other abilities, from interpersonal skills in working with clients to good business practices that keep projects on track to a knowledge of building codes and health and safety issues.

Get a comprehensive overview of both the field of interior design and the many areas of expertise you'll need for a successful career as an interior designer with this guide. A few of the concepts covered are:

The history of interior design through the ages.
The process of interior design, from development of a design concept to analysis of built spaces to design development presentation, and more.

Francis D. K. Ching's illustrated introduction to interior design is now completely revised and even more clear and accessible than in the previous bestselling edition. His unique approach is more useful than ever, with a reformatted, larger trim size for easy reading and an all-new full color section! The book includes new and updated material on finishes, furnishings and textiles, lighting, sustainability, acoustics, workstations, and much more.

The Home series is devoted to interior design and decoration, and presented in a handy format. Leading architects and interior specialists provide inspirational and unique designs that are packed with impressive ideas for your own home. Ingenious, modular, multi-functional, tailor-made: these are the key words that crop up most often when people talk about small living areas.

This book will give you practical advice on how to effectively design and re-design academic library spaces to meet the ever-changing needs for today s and tomorrow s students, faculty, and researchers. The book keeps the busy reader in mind with easy-to-locate references and constructive tips for designing, implementing, and managing an effective space to meet the needs of tomorrow s academic community.

Building materials.
Architecture.
Surfaces (Technology)
Exterior walls.
Wood.
Stone.

The Fairchild Dictionary of Interior Design presents design terminology from both historical and contemporary viewpoints from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Furniture and its components, lighting principles and fixtures, materials, fabrics, construction devices, accessories, woods, styles, and periods all contribute to the language of design. Design is the continuous reuse and revitalization of forms to create meaning for each generation. There is no design that cannot find its way back in history. By integrating the historical evolution of design into the very definition of design terms, The Fairchild Dictionary of Interior Design places the fundamental, accumulated understanding of interior design in the broadest and most comprehensive of contexts.