Inside Information: The defining concepts of interior design
About this ebook
- Introduces the reader to 26 key terms, from ante- to zeitgeist.
- Covers areas of study from the very practical – structures, decoration and sustainability – to the philosophical – gender, space and light.
- Features sources, ranging from: Le Corbusier to Norman Foster; Jacques Derrida to Noam Chomsky; Virginia Woolf to George Orwell.
- Highly illustrated with over 100 photographs and drawings.
About the author
Ed Hollis studied Architecture at Cambridge and Edinburgh Universities; and practiced as an architect for six years, first in Sri Lanka, in the practice of Geoffrey Bawa, then in the practice of Richard Murphy. In 2012 he became Deputy Director of Research, and in 2015, Director of Research across Edinburgh College of Art. He is now Deputy Dean of Research across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences assisting staff in developing research interests and projects of their own.
Sally Stone lives in the north of England, a small country on the northwest edge of Europe. She has been designing, formulating ideas and writing about building reuse for thirty years. Sally is a Reader at the Manchester School of Architecture where she leads the Master of Architecture programme.
