Education & Regulations
History/Modernity
Domestic Interior & Material Culture
Design Principles
Who's That Designer?
100

Education, work experience, exam

The process of becoming a licensed interior designer

100

Mid 1800s-Early 1900s, characterized by handcrafted, dramatic furniture. 

Victorian Era

100

Examines the relationship between things and ideas

Thing Theory

100

The ability to view the world from a safe space

Prospect and refuge

100

First female interior designer

Dorothy Wheeler

200

Decorates spaces

Decorates spaces, works with contractors for permits, follows structural codes, needs to be licensed

Designs the structure of a building 

Interior Decorator

Interior Designer 

Architect

200

Protest against industrialization, gothic style cabinets, hand knotted rugs, etc. 

artistic style that breaks through traditional style genres.

Radical Style and materials, spartan interiors with the idea of Less is more 

Arts and Crafts/Avant Guard/Modernism

200

The transition between spaces, both interior to exterior, and interior to interior.

Threshold 

200

What do High ceilings provide?

Open space that sparks creativity and open thinking 

200

Known for Prairie homes and radically modern designs

Frank Lloyd Wright 

300

Council for Interior Design Accreditation

National Association of Schools of Art and Design

Council of Interior Design Qualification

3-Part Exam for interior design certification 

International Interior Design Association 

American Society of Interior Designers 

CIDA
NASAD
CIDQ
NCIDQ
IIDA
ASID

300

Critique of Modernism, inclusion of pop culture, ephemeral interiors


Housing project demolished in the 1970's, seen as the death of modern architecture.

Post Modern/Pruitt-Igoe

300

Physically obtainable objects that represent value. 

Material Culture

300

What do low ceilings provide?

Focus to be able to think clearly about a specific thing

400

Regulates who practices the profession by law

Regulates who may use the title of the profession

Title for only someone with that accreditation

Practice Act

Title Act

Protected Title


400

Gesamtkunswkwerk

A total and complete work of art 

400

Ideas and non-physical substance giving value to material culture. 

Non-Material Culture

400

The idea that different ceiling heights affect thinking

Cathedral Affect

500

Gov. mandated minimum of accepted building practice

Accessibility for ADA and life safety (ex. Fire egress)

Regulations and Building codes

Health, Safety, and Wellfare

500

a collection of specifically selected design objects, and the set of criteria by which these objects are judged. 



Canon and Paradigm & the western world view

500
We study this to better understand the relation of things in a space and how humans view them

Purpose of studying material culture