Designing Commercial Interiors

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The first and only book of its kind, Designing Commercial Interiors provides students and professional designers with expert guidance on the full range of practical, aesthetic, and psychosocial issues involved in designing for nonresidential interiors. Drawing on nearly a half-century of experience as designers and interior design educators, the authors provide comprehensive coverage of planning and design for all types of organizations and service facilities.

Arranged for maximum ease of reference, the book comprises a series of self-contained chapters, each one providing comprehensive coverage of a specific category of commercial facility-including offices, hotels and lodgings, food and beverage facilities, retail facilities, health care facilities, institutional facilities, and banks. Each chapter begins with an overview of functional considerations, followed by an in-depth discussion of critical planning and design concepts and helpful, real-world examples. Chapters also include detailed information on key machine interface considerations, codes and regulations, and building systems, accompanied by professional-quality illustrations that help clarify issues related to space layouts, specialized equipment, and aesthetic concerns. In the concluding chapter, the authors provide valuable step-by-step guidance on project management for commercial interior designers.

The only single-volume guide to designing for all types of nonresidential interiors, Designing Commercial Interiors is an ideal reference for students of interior design. It is also an indispensable working resource for professional interior designers, especially for those interested in making the move into one of today's most rewarding design specialties.

The first and only comprehensive guide to the design of all types of nonresidential interiors.

Designing Commercial Interiors is both an excellent reference for interior design students and a valuable resource for professional interior designers considering taking a leap into nonresidential design. Drawing upon forty-five years of combined experience as commercial and residential interior designers, Christine Piotrowski and Elizabeth Rogers offer expert, step-by-step guidance on planning and designing for all types of nonresidential interiors -including offices, food and beverage facilities, health care facilities, lodgings, banks, and more. Illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and photographs, Designing Commercial Interiors covers all key aspects of the subject, including:
* Functional considerations
* Critical planning and design concepts
* Design applications
* Human/machine interface issues
* Building codes and regulations
* Building systems
* The changing office environment and alternative office environments
* Designing healthy work environments
* Project management

Designing with Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models

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Designing with Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Architectural Design Models
Criss B. Mills
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ASIN: 047134589X

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The only comprehensive guide to basic and advanced design process modeling tools, materials, and techniques For nearly a century, three-dimensional models have been considered an indispensable tool of the architectural design process. Models provide designers with an extremely effective medium for exploring ideas, testing theories, and discovering innovative solutions. Unfortunately, most guides to architectural modeling focus primarily on how to produce finished presentation models. Consequently, students are forced to learn the basics of design modeling from their peers, instructors, or frustrating trial and error. Designing with Models, the first complete, step-by-step guide to basic and advanced design process modeling, significantly reduces the learning curve. Architect Criss Mills acquaints you with essential design modeling terms, equipment, materials, and construction methods. Then, with the help of more than 700 high-quality photographs and four in-depth case studies, he walks you through the basics of determining scale; generating new ideas; exploring design alternatives; modifying, editing, and integrating new forms into models; and adding details and other final-stage refinements. Mills also provides detailed guidance on how to model using advanced tools and materials. You learn how to model with wood, found objects, metal rods and screens, clay, plexiglass, and other materials. You also learn how to work safely and effectively with power tools such as belt sanders, table saws, drills, and band saws, as well as how to transfer model dimensions to 2D plan, section, and elevation drawings.

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good quality.......2006-01-17

It took a while to get to me but not long and the book was practically new! I'm very happy with it!

with poor pix, this is too much.......2004-11-11

I was astonished with poor quality of BW pictures this book contains. And I paid $50 for this? The photos are poorly lit so the details are not clear, and not sharp enough for this kind of printing. Texts are rather sketchy too. Intrestingly, resources contain a section for books on presentation models. I found most of them are out of print.
I can just imagine this book's innitial run was so low that gave this hefty price tag to this book.
Unless you have a lot of money to waste, or you're advanced, you'll be surprised like me.

Designing With Models Designing With Models.......2000-06-06

From the standpoint of representation, and despite the advent of computer graphics and animation, the architectural model has persisted in being a privileged way of expressing architectural intentions. The irresistible iconic relation between the model and the building, and the intimacy witnessed through this association, has unquestionably contributed to this survival. Because in the model no extra interpretive energy is needed to grasp the intended, and because there is definitely a pleasure in seeing something big represented by something similar to it but smaller, the critical denigration of model-making has been minimum. This is unlike the case of the plan and other classical modes of projecting buildings where the conventional nature of representation has opened the gates for questioning their legitimacy. From the angle of making and performing, model-making has also remained a very powerful means of exploring ideas that have 3-d space as their support. The relative absence of a cognitive distance between intentions and their crystallization in the sensible realm, due essentially to the paramount role the hand directly plays in the shaping of a given design idea, has reinforced an interest in model-making as a means for expressing the immediate and the spontaneous. A closer relation the other visual arts has followed, and the architectural model has become a competent candidate not only for expressing design ideas but also emotions and feelings. The author, who is both an architect and an artist, seems to be implicitly alluding to these stands in one fashion or the other.

Now this Studio guide to making and using architectural design models begins with an introduction to the equipment, materials and model types. In detail, Chapter Two tackles basic techniques for assembling model components. Cutting, attaching, fitting, templating and finishing routines are provided with clear instructions and illustrations. Chapter Three, I think, remains the heart of the guide. Here the author explores a framework for conceiving and using models. As a pedagogic section, this chapter is full of tutoring guidelines and is a meticulously comprehensive investigation. Much of what is suggested in relation to scale, ideas, manipulation and development of models remains focussed. Mill's analysis here illustrates the paramount role models can play not only in representing defined architectural ideas but also as the prime generators of information without the aid of drawings or exact scales. The dialectical relation between sketch models and concept drawings is investigated nonetheless. But it is the stress on the idea that architectural thinking could be deeply investigated through model-making, with all possible alternatives, that is interesting. "Often, " Mill writes, " new directions emerge that do not follow the original intention. Instead of ignoring these and steering the design along preconceived paths, it can be profitable to let go of earlier ideas and follow the implications suggested by the model. This may involve following the design through a strong shift in direction or even returning to an earlier generation in preference to latter versions. " Other observations like these follow. In Chapter Four, the author applies a step-by-step case study of concepts and techniques in relation to the design of five cases: a residence, a multifamily house, a sculptural foundry, an office building and an urban park. These projects trace the evolution of design from early conceptual stages to finishing models. Many assembly techniques and strategies presented in Chapters Two and Three are shown to convey possible applications in the context of evolving designs. Chapter Five (Creating Curvilinear Forms and Special techniques), presents a range of techniques for making sculptural shapes. "Because sculptural elements are more often needed as components of a model, many of the examples present ideas for creating individual shapes. These can be expanded to entire models if desired." In Chapter Six, examples of model usage from the architecture practice are provided. The author reminds us that in practice, "modeling offers one of the strongest ways of understanding the impact of design decisions on the built work and is of particular value in working with complex geometries." The suggested projects offer examples of models from several types of practices. Many of the strategies discussed in Chapter Three and Four can be seen at work, as well as the connection between built work and the model history that helped form them. Finally, Chapter Seven provides useful advice related to alternative media, related models, transferring model dimensions, photography and detailed presentation models.

As a conclusion, Designing With Models contributes to the (modest) body of literature on model-making in a significant way. It is, to my knowledge, the first complete step-by-step guide to fundamental and well-developed modeling. One could not fault the visual clarity and graphic organization of the work. The black and white photographs do not stand isolated but are balanced by the supplemented comments. The text includes sufficient information for a thorough understanding of the proposed model-making techniques. Although some of it is concise, the text is for the most part well written, and to the point. The lack of a bibliographical section, however, is somehow disappointing, but then the book does not pretend to be a theoretical treatise or a scholarly work.

Design With Models: A Studio Guide to Making and Using Arch.......2000-05-17

Gives helpful methods of design methods intergrated with the model creation process. Things such as representation of materiality and techniques in the process of model creation are described. Very nice tool for those looking to branch their technique past 3D/2D computer and hand drawing design.

Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration

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Wordy and Disappointing

Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration
James A. Abbott , and Elaine M. Rice
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ASIN: 0471375144

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Firsthand accounts and photographs chronicle the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy Administration.

Designing Camelot recounts one of the most influential interior design projects in American history, the restoration of the White House during the Kennedy administration. Fueled by the intense fascination with the charismatic First Family, the project had a profound effect on the popular American imagination and taste in interior furnishings. Emphasizing the historic restoration of each room and the efforts to have these rooms reflect the personalities and tastes of Jack and Jackie, Designing Camelot features a wealth of first-person quotations, personal and public correspondence, media accounts, and photographs. Included are detailed room-by-room analyses of the restoration, anecdotes about the people involved, and insights into the choices made.

James Abbot (Baltimore, MD) is currently Curator of Decorative Arts at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Elaine Rice (Wilmington, DE) is an independent consultant on American fine and decorative arts.

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Spectactular.......2006-04-08

James Abbot and Elaine Rice are right on the money! This book entails the Kennedy restoration of the White House during 1961 - 1963. Much research has gone in to producing an excellent history that otherwise would be lost. Great photographs of the Kennedy White House as well. I can say this book is a treasure for both Kennedy and White House enthusiasts alike. I have had this book for several years and still find myself picking it up.

Classic Lady, Classic Designer, Classic Book........2004-03-21

James Abbott and Elaine Rice have documented the blueprinting and designing of much more than rooms in the White House. The title says it all. Camelot was about all things Kennedy Administration. Navy suits and Limousines were younger and more progressive. Presentations on the lawn for visiting heads of states by far surpassed the ho-hum receptions at the train station. No detail of Camelot, the White House public rooms and the family quarters escaped scrutiny of Jackie, Sister Parrish and Boudin. Jackie even designed the ash stands with Boudin's help.

I don't understand the criticism of this book as dry or wordy. It's a book. It's a narrative, not a coffee table book. Tomes have been printed and documented of the restored rooms, before and after. The photos are what they were. In this world of colorized movies, Photoshopped magazine covers and remastered music, Abbott and Rice have given us the plain unvarnished way it was, warts and all. I found the background very interesting. It was a collaborative effort between the committee, Jackie, Sister Parrish and Boudin, with a giant does of Henry duPont thrown in. Any one person could have completely changed the way the great house looked, but Jackie rescued the building from it's Gimbell's basement look. It remains generally true to her vision, even though eight First Ladies have imprinted on it. This country would not exist if not for the help of France during the Revolution. It influenced this country greatly and I see nothing wrong with the influence. No one criticized Mamie Eisenhower for the his and hers tvs in the wall or the Mamie Pink.

I enjoyed this book, and I would recommend it to anyone.

not enough for the money.......2003-05-17

The writing is dry. The pictures are not the best and it fails to show whnat the White House looked like before the restoration. Everyone says that it looked horrible so why not give the reader a taste of what was so wrong with it? If you can find the White House guidebook that was produced to pay for the restoration read that instead. It has much betters photos.

Superb!.......2001-06-25

A superb survey of the White House decor of President & Mrs. Kennedy. The book documents the ideas, process, decisions and choices behind the stunning interiors of the Kennedy White House-both the public and private rooms. What comes through the text is Mrs. Kennedy's leadership and vision - combining taste, history, beauty and great cunning - just to create and then manage this melange of egos, talent and intelligence was an accomplishment, and the results live on today (albeit not as beautifully or artistically). We all gained a greater knowledge and appreciation of our nation's historic and artistic past because of Mrs. Kennedy's work.

I've corresponded with Mr. Abbott and he's been most kind and interesting. He assisted in the current show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," and there's a number of items on display relating to the White House decorations.

Read the book, catch the exhibit (it moves to the JFK Library in Boston in the fall).

Wordy and Disappointing.......2001-05-15

I was very disappointed with this book. I found the writing style dry and the photographs/layout just not up to par. It almost seemed like somebody's thesis with som photos thrown in. Somebody needs to do a large format picture book on this subject with more about Jackie!

The Architecture of Medical Imaging: Designing Healthcare Facilities for Advanced Radiological Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques

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The Architecture of Medical Imaging: Designing Healthcare Facilities for Advanced Radiological Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques
Bill, FAIA Rostenberg
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ASIN: 0471716618

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The cornerstone guide for designing tomorrow's medical imaging facilities

The Architecture of Medical Imaging is the foremost guide to the design of state-of-the-art medical imaging facilities for radiography, MRI, and CT and PET scans. Written by an industry expert, this useful resource discusses complex issues in a user-friendly language that is fully understandable to healthcare planners, department heads, and executives. No other reference makes it easier to understand the technical requirements of radiological equipment and procedures.

The Architecture of Medical Imaging is divided into six convenient parts:
* Part 1 explains the importance of quality design and how it relates to changes in the healthcare and medical imaging industries
* Part 2 describes how to organize and manage an architectural project from the owner's perspective
* Part 3 presents the vast range of today's imaging techniques, as well as those still in research and development
* Part 4 addresses important planning and design concepts for medical imaging facilities
* Part 5 discusses medical imaging trends and their impact on facility design
* Part 6 provides useful appendices that examine specific imaging facility projects

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The Best!.......2002-11-23

A comprehensive guide to the planning and design of all types of imaging facilities for health care: radiology, MRI, CT scan, PET scan, etc. Clearly written, abundantly illustrated, this book belongs on the reference shelf of any architect working on health care facilities.

Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience

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Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience
C. Thomas Mitchell
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Redefining Designing From Form to Experience C. Thomas Mitchell Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. This landmark work focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. The book offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction. C. Thomas Mitchell points out how many designs, particularly in architecture, fail to suit their intended purpose — not because of their style but because of the design process itself. Mitchell then reviews user-responsive design methods, which he calls "design turned inside-out." He explores collaborative, contextual, and intangible design, and cites examples of each. International case studies illustrate up-to-the-minute topics such as "humanware," softecnica, the pattern language, and soft design. Also featured is an interview with Brian Eno and graphic work by artists Christo and Robert Wilson. Many never-before published illustrations enhance the book throughout. A broad synthesis of new thinking on design, Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience will be of great interest to a wide range of professionals, including architects, planners, and landscape architects, as well as product, interior, and industrial designers.

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Is an architecture book for no architecture people.......1999-09-08

This book offers a critic evaluation of practices and philosophies about architecture. The author say that buildings doesn't get the planned objetives because of designing itself. The book presents a new way of doing architecture and presents an historical view of architecture like a social and cultural process.

Designing With Light: Public Places : Lighting Solutions for Exhibitions, Museums and Historic Spaces (Designing With Light Series)

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Designing With Light: Public Places : Lighting Solutions for Exhibitions, Museums and Historic Spaces (Designing With Light Series)
Janet Turner
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Designing With Light: Retail Spaces : Lighting Solutions for Shops, Malls and Markets (Designing With Light)

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Designing With Light: Retail Spaces : Lighting Solutions for Shops, Malls and Markets (Designing With Light)
Janet Turner
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Designing With Light: Hotels (Designing with Light)

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Designing With Light: Hotels (Designing with Light)
Jill Entwistle , and Keith Lovegrove
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11 13/16 x 8 1/4 170 color and 5 black-and-white illustrations US Distribution only interior design Dictated by function and use, lighting choices vary considerably for each area in a hotel, and professional designers must carefully assess use before selecting and implementing lighting schemes. Hotels takes us into such world-renowned hotels as the Mondrian in Los Angeles, The Legian in Bali, Hotel Square in Paris, and the Chicago Beach Hotel in Dubai to demonstrate how their many-faceted needs are met. In lobbies, image and atmosphere are of paramount importance, for example. Suites where both business meetings and grand celebrations are held demand flexible lighting choices. On the practical side, energy-saving design is a critically important factor for hotels operating around the clock. Covering these and other aspects of lighting, Hotels offers a technical introduction to lighting basics, and features high-quality photos, lighting plans, diagrams, and a comprehensive glossary.

Designing to Sell: A Complete Guide to Retail Store Planning and Design

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Designing to Sell: A Complete Guide to Retail Store Planning and Design
Vilma Barr , and Charles E. Broudy
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Designing the New Museum: Building a Destination

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Designing the New Museum: Building a Destination
James Grayson Trulove
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Somewhere between the unveiling of Wright's shocking Guggenheim in New York and Gehry's shocking Guggenheim in Bilbao, the museum went from being an "elegant receptacle" for other people's art to a spectacle in and of itself. Consider for a moment the fact that the latter-day Wright's Guggenheim has single-handedly transformed Bilbao from a neglected industrial town into a premier destination for tourists (most of whom don't even bother checking the exhibit schedule before they come), or that supposedly 50 new museums, or major additions to old ones, are currently under construction in the United States alone. Museum-going, once a "veddy, veddy" serious ritual of the upper classes, has become a mass-marketed enjoyment that's not too far removed from pilgrimages to Disneyworld or big, snazzy shopping malls.

Whether or not that's good for art is somewhat beside the point, at least insofar as goes this very handsome view book of 24 of art's most glamorous new envelopes around the world, which features both all-new sites and clever additions or renovations, as well as both "general interest" sites and "specialized" ones like Kohn Pedersen Fox's Rodin Gallery in Seoul, South Korea, and Arata Isozaki's Center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio. That's not to say, however, that many of these sleekly elegant postmodern receptacles aren't sensitive to the works that they house. Many of them--such as Steven Holl Architects' dazzling Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, José Rafael Moneo's deferential limestone addition to the 1924 Beaux Arts Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and Alvaro Siza's immaculate white-stucco Museu de Serralves in Oporto, Portugal--benefit from cutting-edge design technology that bathes their contents in a wealth of natural light that would be unimaginable in the thickly vaulted great museums of prior centuries. And, from UN Studios' Museum Het Valkhof in the Netherlands--with its exterior of shimmering aquamarine and light-green glass panels--to Thompson and Rose's Gulf Coast Museum of Art in Clearwater, Florida--whose simple, lightweight volumes keep harmonious company with the nearby 60-acre botanical gardens and the Pinellas waterway--this new generation of museums lays out galleries, pavilions, and the like so that artwork will unfold before visitors in conceptual, holistic, and often nonlinear ways--a deliberateness that indicates just how clear a sense each of their designers had of the content for which they were creating a home.

Nonetheless, it's a credit both to this sumptuous volume and the sites that it showcases that by the last page you'll want to pack a bag to go see each of them for real; be it I.M. Pei's Miho Museum of Japanese Art--whose temple-like glass rooftops rise up out of the mountains outside of Kyoto, Japan--or Bruner/Cott's acclaimed, 13-acre Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts--carved with epic ingenuity out of a historic, old brick-mill complex into a sprawling modern-arts laboratory of near-limitless possibility. You'll marvel at the stylistic ingenuity, boldness of form, breathtaking feats of design and craftsmanship... and that's not even to mention that "art stuff" that's scattered around inside. --Timothy Murphy

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Museums have emerged as major travel destinations for millions of travelers, and every major city is adding to an existing museum or planning a new one to compete as a world cultural center. What's new about museum visitors today is that it is not only the collections and shows they are coming to see, it is also the museum building itself. Cities are quickly learning that a new museum, or an addition by a world-class architect can do more to generate tourism than can the acquisition of a major piece of art. This unprecedented collection takes a look at the new museums and museum builders. Presenting in detail a selection of museums that have been built in the past five years or are planned for completion over the next five years, this book will look at these new museums from a design perspective.

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Blah.......2003-07-19

This is a pretty empty book, despite the somewhat promising premise. It opens with 2 short essays on the design of museums, and the rest of the book is primarily composed of pictures of recently designed museums. Each building presented is prefaced with a short blurb on its design and/or interesting qualities and most of the buildings are also presented with miniature plans.

If anything, this is a coffee table book that fails in its attempts to address an issue that needs little, if any, addressing. The buildings presented have some interesting design ideas, and, judging from the pictures, provide an atmosphere that can be ideal for presenting art, art in itself, or something that might be described as "National Cafe Chain (starbucks, etc...)" Mid-90s Color Block and Graves' terrible denver library.

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