Shaping Interior Space 2nd Ed.

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.

Roberto J. Rengel, MArch, MIArch, IDEC, IIDA, is a Professor of Interior Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he teaches courses on professional practice, commercial design and placemaking. He holds a MArch degree from Tulane University and a MIArch degree from the University of Oregon. Rengel's research focuses on issues of spatial order, experiential richness and design process related to the built environment. Prior to his academic career, he practised commercial interior designer for 15 years with Gensler and Associated Space Design.