Interior Space: Design Concepts For Personal Needs - Softcover

Miller, Stuart; Schlitt, Judith K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0275928241 ISBN 13: 9780275928247

Publisher: Praeger, 1987

Synopsis

A radical approach to interior design, Interior Space presents a new and valuable technique for the design of home environments. Written by a psychologist/designer team, this book introduces environmental psychology as an important design resource and as an essential element in the conceptual process. It serves as a source of new information and as a significant reference book for the novice as well as the designer and the environmental psychologists already involved with the applications of environmental psychology. The authors identify 9 psychological needs, describing them in depth and offering examples of their operation in the home environment. Assessment techniques for determining dominant needs are offered to the professional and methods of translating unique need profiles into workable designs are presented throughout the book.

This is a book that a psychologist can recommend to design professionals or to students concerned with interior spaces. It is clear, well written, well organized, and consistent in approach and emphasis. Interior Space will also serve as a valuable book for social scientists interested in the relationship between design and human behavior.

About this title

About the Author:

STUART MILLER is Professor of Psychology at Towson State University and a consultant to IDEA Associates, a firm providing interior design and environmental analysis service to residential, professional, and executive clients.

JUDITH K. SCHLITT, a professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers, heads IDEA Associates, is a faculty member of the Parsons School of Design, and recently created and produced her own television series on interior design for American Cablesystems.

Review:

?This is a book that a psychologist can recommend to design professionals or to students concerned with interior spaces. It is clear, well written, well organized, and consistent in approach and emphasis.?-Robert Sommer, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Davis

"It is refreshing...to find a book on the subject which is written in clear language, which is written by a team...and which is addressed to practicing interior designers and could presumably be understood by laymen. This book should also be a very useful text for students in the field of interior design as well as those who are interested in the behavioral sciences, and above all, the book will be a very useful addition to the libraries of all residential interior designers."-Arnold Friedman Professor of Art and Design and Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts University of Massachusetts in Interior Design Magazine

"This is a book that a psychologist can recommend to design professionals or to students concerned with interior spaces. It is clear, well written, well organized, and consistent in approach and emphasis."-Robert Sommer, Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Consumer Research, University of California, Davis in Contemporary Psychology

About this edition

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0275928241
• ISBN 13: 9780275928247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206