1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Interior Architecture Research
Lists of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Steven Webber
Introduction
Nisha A. Fernando
PART I: Redefined Interior Contexts
Chapter 1: Designing Purposeful Learning Spaces for Neurodiverse Students in Higher Education
Elif Tural and David Kniola
Chapter 2: Indigenous Interior Design Practices and Dialectics: Refiguring Indoor Space and Materiality to Enhance Well-being
Mokọládé Johnson and Emma Ekpo
Chapter 3: Physical Affordances: Can Interior Design Impact Perceptions of Campus Safety?
Lindsay Pew and Laura Cole
Chapter 4: Heritage and Place Attachment: Implications for Interior Design
Anna F. P. S. Pimenta, Adriana Marques Rossetto, Beau B. Beza, and Maíra Longhinotti Felippe
Chapter 5: Barriers and Carriers to Making a Home: Cues and Codes of Environmental Deprivation after a Disaster
Chamila (Don) Subasinghe
Chapter 6: The Model Interior as an Analogical Performative Space
Eleanor Suess
Chapter 7: Interior Architecture and Adaptive Reuse: Elective Affinities
Francesca Lanz
Chapter 8: Designing Interiors for Psychological Wellbeing: The Role of Home Products
Leandro Miletto Tonetto
Chapter 9: Space, Object, Experience
Louise Ritchie and Andrew Milligan
Chapter 10: Micro-Human Effort Perspectives: Misalignments in "Making a Home" after a Disaster
Chamila (Don) Subasinghe
PART II: Theoretical Foundations
Chapter 11: Salutogenic Design: Theoretical Direction for Health-Promoting Design
Saman Jamshidi and Seyedehnastaran Hashemi
Chapter 12: Connecting Theoretical Constructs to Inter-professional Practice: Systems Theory as the Foundation for Collaboration
Kristi Julian and Vickie Harden
Chapter 13: Harmony in Chaos Theory to Enhance Innovation in Interior Architecture
Rania Awadalla
Chapter 14: User-Centric Residential Design: Employing Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems
Yuxuan (Sherie) Zhang
Chapter 15: The Mosaic: The Evolution of a Timeless Form of Communication
Aaron Kadoch
Chapter 16: Designing Healthy, Sustainable Interiors: Exploring Key Intersections
Haroon Sattar
PART III: Interiors for Salubrity
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 19: Re-examining Restoration Needs for Clinicians in Healthcare Environments.
Apoorva Rane and Debajyoti Pati
Chapter 20: Exploring Restorative Potential of Interior Design in Anxiety Treatment Using Virtual Reality
Alp Tural
Chapter 21: A Glimmer of Home in Long-Term Care Interior Environments: Lessons Learned from the Canadian Small House Care Model
Emily Roberts
Chapter 22: Couches and Carcinogens: Residential Interior Furnishings and Health Risks
Casey Franklin
Chapter 23: Biophilic Design from a Psychology and Neuroscience Perspective: Restorative Influences on Functional Brain Connectivity
Joel Martínez-Soto, Ryadi Adityavarman, Fernando A. Barrios, and Leopoldo Gonzalez-Santos
PART IV: Immersive Directions in Pedagogies and Praxis
Chapter 24: The Modality Affordance of Generative AI Models: Implications for Architectural and Interior Design Process
Mohammad Dastmalchi
Chapter 25: Higher Education Interior Design Challenges and Opportunities: Insights from Industry-sponsored Design Research Projects
Elif Tural
Chapter 26: Infusing Service-Learning Pedagogy in Interior Design Instruction
Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi and Julianne Gassman
Chapter 27: AI as a Generative and Dialogue Tool: Exploring Text-to-Image Generation in Interior Architecture Education
Dilshan Ossen and Amir Goli
Chapter 28: Navigating the Space between Soft Lead and Mixed Reality with Design Students
Elke Altenburger and Gabriela Fonseca Pereira
Chapter 29: Storytelling: Empathy by Design
Scott Barton
Chapter 30: Virtual Reality for Tacit Knowledge in Design Education: The Role of Social Interactions
Amir Goli and Mohammad Dastmalchi
Chapter 31: Precedent Simulation and Analysis in Design History Survey Courses
Carrie Pavel
Chapter 32: Defining Interior Design: A Profession with Complexity
Tommy J. Crane
Index
Biography
Nisha A. Fernando is Director and Associate Professor of Interior Architecture, School of Architecture and 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 the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from the 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.
