Shaping Interior Space

Product Description

Shaping Interior Space, 4th Edition, emphasizes the experiential contributions of interior design. Intended for all design students, the author covers strategies for creating interior environments that work as a total system to enhance the experience of the user. The book is organized into three parts, a background part introduces ways of designing for experience and reviews design principles and strategies. Part Two focuses on the three experiential goals that form the backbone of the book, order, enrichment, and expression. These serve as overall umbrellas that capture the many dimensions of users’ experiences in the built environment. Part Three is devoted to design process. The process is broken up into understanding, ideation, and development and covers many tasks performed during the early and intermediate stages of design.
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Review

“This book is the ideal textbook because it offers a methodical process to understanding the basics of interior space, the value of clearly identified design problems, intentions and strategies for solutions, and an emphasis on ideation and the pre-design process.” ―Review program
“I can’t think of another book that covers design in this way. Most books address methods of space planning or methods of communicating work, such as textbooks on drafting by hand or computer, or drawing and rendering. Other textbooks address issues such as human factors. But thinking about how to design a space that is shaped to be a cohesive whole is a unique to this textbook.” ―Review program

About the Author

Roberto J. Rengel is a Professor of Interior Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, where he teaches courses on professional practice, commercial design and placemaking. Prior to his academic career, he practiced commercial interior designer for 15 years with Gensler and Associated Space Design in the U.S