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Interior Architecture and Design Subject Guide
Interior Design
Professional & Business
- Becoming an interior designer : a guide to careers in design (2009)
- How to start a home-based interior design business (2009)
- Designing your future : an introduction to career preparation and professional practices in interior design (2008)
- Professional practice for interior designers (2008)
- How to start and operate your own design firm : a guide for interior designers and architects (2007)
Drafting & Rendering
- Hand drafting for interior design (2010)
- Interior design (2010)
- Construction drawings and details for interiors : basic skills (2009)
- Drawing for interior design (2009)
- Drawing out the interior (2009)
- Basic CAD for interior designers : AutoCAD, Architectural Desktop, and VIZ Render 2007 (2008)
- Interior design visual presentation : a guide to graphics, models, and presentation techniques (2008)
- Interior graphic and design standards (1986)
Commercial Design
- 101 hotel rooms (2011)
- Retail design (2010)
- Design taste : graphics + interiors for cafés, bars and restaurants (2009)
- Informing design (2009)
- Sustainable commercial interiors (2007)
- Café & restaurant design (2005)
Residential Design
Lighting
- How to design a light (2010)
- Residential lighting : a practical guide to beautiful and sustainable design (2009)
- The architecture of light : architectural lighting design concepts and techniques : a textbook of procedures and practices for the architect, interior designer and lighting designer (2008)
- DesignDesign : furniture & lights (2007)
Miscellaneous
- Staging space : scenic interiors and spatial experiences (2010)
- Textiles for residential & commercial interiors (2010)
- Environmentally responsible design : green and sustainable design for interior designers (2008)
- Specifying interiors : a guide to construction and FF&E for residential and commercial interiors projects (2006)
eBooks
Current Subscriptions
- A Journal (Available online)
- Abitare
- ArcCa
- Architect (Available online)
- Architectural Design (Available online)
- Architectural Digest (Available online)
- Architectural Lighting (Available online)
- Architectural Record (Available online)
- Architectural Review (Available online)
- Domus
- Dwell
- Environmental building news
- Fabric architecture
- Frame
- GreenSource: the magazine of sustainable design
- Inspiration
- Interior Design (Available online)
- Interni
- Journal of architectural education: JAE
- LD+A: Lighting Design + Applications (Available online)
- The Magazine Antiques (Available online)
- Martha Stewart Living
- Period Homes
- Quaderns d'arquitectura
- Selvedge (Available online)
- The World of Interiors
Back Issues Only
- Art & Antiques (Available online)
- Casa Vogue
- Casabella
- Fine homebuilding
- Gap Casa
- House & Garden (U.K. edition)
- House & Garden (U.S. edition)
- Houses: the Residential Architecture Magazine
- I.D.: the International Design Magazine
- Inspired House
- Metropolitan Home
- ReadyMade
- Real Simple
- Traditional Building
- View on Colour
- e² design : the economies of being environmentally conscious. Season three (2008)
- Jean Nouvel : Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, MN (2008)
- Building in harmony : an organization for amateur musicians undertakes an innovative green construction project (2007)
- Trust me-- I'm a designer (2003)
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
Articles and Reference Resources
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
- ebrary – Full Text Online Books
- Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
- Full Text Online Journal and Magazine Articles
- Full Text Online Access to the Journal of Interior Design
- WGSN -- Check out their Interiors Section by clicking Product Categories then Interiors.
- Full Text Online Reference Books
Image Websites
- Academy of Art University Digital Image Resources
- 3D Plants
- British Museum Collection Database
- VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts
- Wikimedia Commons
Job Websites
Professional Organizations
Grant Information
Other Websites
- Image Resources in the Library (Printed)
- Picture Files
- Drafting tables
- Lightboxes
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