Rethinking design and interiors: human beings in the built environment

Preface / Susan S. Szenasy

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.