The Routledge Handbook of Interior Architecture Research

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-75657-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This handbook examines the important relationship between interior environments and their users, presenting diverse analyses of human-centred design approaches. It encompasses empirical research across multiple dimensions—from the various scales at which interior spaces are experienced to cultural influences, theoretical frameworks, health impacts, and educational methodologies.

Interior architecture has evolved significantly, establishing itself as a rigorous and crucial academic discipline and profession in global society. Rectifying outdated perceptions of designed interiors as merely a decorative realm, this handbook - featuring contributions from international authors - highlights the profound social, cultural, technological, and ecological impacts of interior architecture in the 21st century. The handbook presents cutting-edge research that emphasizes technological advancements in interior design processes, comprehensive analyses of human-centred design through empirical studies and intellectual on spatial experience at various scales, cultural context and influences, theoretical perspectives and frameworks, health and well-being considerations, and educational approaches and professional practices.

This handbook is relevant to academics, design researchers, practitioners, and students by exploring interior architecture through multiple disciplinary lenses: psychology, sociology, neuroscience, anthropology, and ecology. Readers will gain valuable insights into how analytical approaches to interior architecture contribute significantly to positive human experiences and conditions in our built environments.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernando, Nisha A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Nisha A. Fernando) PART I: Redefined Interior Contexts 1.Designing Purposeful Learning Spaces for Neurodiverse Students in Higher Education (Elif Tural David Kniola) 2. Indigenous Interior Design Practices and Dialectics: Refiguring Indoor Space and Materiality to Enhance Well-being (Mokolade Johnson & Emma Ekpo) 3. Physical Affordances: Can Interior Design Impact Perceptions of Campus Safety? (Lindsay Pew & Laura Cole) 4. Heritage and Place Attachment: Implications for Interior Design (Anna F. P. S. Pimenta, Adriana Marques Rossetto, Beau B. Beza, and Maíra Longhinotti Felippe) 5. Barriers and Carriers to Making a Home: Cues and Codes of Environmental Deprivation After a Disaster (Chamila (Don) Subasinghe) 6. The Model Interior as an Analogical Performative Space (Eleanor Suess) 7. Interior Architecture and Adaptive Reuse: Elective Affinities (Francesca Lanz) 8. Designing Interiors for Psychological Wellbeing: The Role of Home Products (Leandro Miletto Tonetto) 9. Space, Object, Experience (Louise Ritchie & Andrew Milligan) 10. Micro-Human Effort Perspectives: Misalignments in "Making a Home" After a Disaster (Chamila (Don) Subasinghe) PART II: Theoretical Foundations 11. Salutogenic Design: Theoretical Direction for Health Promoting Design (Saman Jamshidi & Seyedehnastaran Hashemi) 12. Connecting Theoretical Constructs to Inter-professional Practice: Systems Theory as the Foundation for Collaboration (Kristi Julian & Vickie Harden) 13. Harmony in Chaos Theory to Enhance Innovation in Interior Architecture (Rania Awadalla) 14. Unser-centric Residential Design: Empowering Knowledge-based Decision Support Systems (Yuxuan (Sherie) Zhang) 15. The Mosaic: The Evolution of a Timeless Form of Communication (Aaron Kadoch) 16. Designing Healthy, Sustainable Interiors: Exploring Key Intersections(Haroon Sattar) PART III: Interiors for Salubrity 17. Environment-behaviour Inquiry and Children’s Mental Health – A Pilot Study of Observations in Video Recordings (Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Julie Irish, Kira Davies, and Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos)
18. Interior Architecture for Healthcare Settings: Human-centred Design Effects in High-risk Patient Care Spaces (Herminia Machry, Anjali Joseph, Rutali Joshi, and Deborah Wingler)
19. Re-examining Restoration Needs for Clinicians in Healthcare Environments (Apoorva Rane & Debajyoti Pati) 20. Exploring Restorative Potential of Interior Design in Anxiety Treatment using Virtual Reality (Alp Tural) 21. A Glimmer of Home in Long-term Care Interior Environments: Lessons Learned from the Canadian Small House Care Model (Emily Roberts) 22. Couches & Carcinogens: Residential Interior Furnishings and Health Risks (Casey Franklin) 23. Biophilic Design from a Psychology and Neuroscience Perspective: Restorative Influences on Functional Brain Connectivity (Joel Martinez-Soto, Ryadi Adityavarman, Fernando A. Barrios & Leopoldo Gonzalez-Santos) PART IV: Immersive Directions in Pedagogies & Praxis 24. The Modality Affordance of Generative AI Models: Implications for Architectural and Interior Design Process (Mohammad Dastmalchi) 25. Higher Education Interior Design Challenges and Opportunities: Insights from Industry-sponsored Design Research Projects (Elif Tural) 26. Infusing Service-Learning Pedagogy in Interior Design Instruction(Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi & Julianne Gassman) 27. AI as a Generative and Dialogue Tool: Exploring Text-to-Image Generation in Interior Architecture Education (Dilshan Ossen & Amir Goli) 28. Navigating the Space Between Soft Lead and Mixed Reality with Design Students (Elke Altenburger & Gabriela Fonseca Pereira) 29. Storytelling: Empathy by Design (Scott Barton) 30. The Role of Virtual Reality in Enhancing Social Interactions for Construction of Tacit Knowledge in Design Education (Amir Goli & Mohammad Dastmalchi) 31. Precedents Simulation and Analysis in Design History Survey Courses (Carrie Pavel) 32. Defining Interior Design: A Profession with Complexity (Tommy J. Crane)

Über Autor(innen)

Nisha A. Fernando is Director and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture, School of Architecture & Design at the University of Kansas. Previously, she was Professor of Interior Architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture (Environment-Behaviour Studies) from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Her research focuses on culture-space interactions, including sensory aspects of built environments, place attachment and meaning, as well as interior architecture pedagogy. Her most recent publication (2024, co-edited with Kapila D. Silva) is Theorizing Built Form and Culture: The Legacy of Amos Rapoport, a festschrift to her doctoral advisor Professor Amos Rapoport, published by Routledge. It received the EDRA Achievement Award in 2024.