RESIDENTIAL DESIGN STUDIO

This text will address the process of how a professional interior designer goes about planning and designing a residence. Taking the approach of an interview with a potential homeowner, students will create a profile of the end user, so that decisions can be made on program and price. It will simulate for the residential design studio the same conditions that a professional designer faces including client requirements, program, budget, existing plan boundaries, and site location, providing a framework for the student to do their own thinking and their own design work. Features: · Uses bubble and circulation diagrams taking designer from outside the entry into the interior space of the residence. · Projects include all residential typologies, such as apartments, townhouses, mixed-use buildings, and single family residences. · Separate chapters on kitchen and bathroom designs. · Includes sample "Client Interview" form to determine client's needs and develop program. · Case studies by interior designers and architects to illustrate the best examples of current residential design. · Base outline plans to use with a series of design projects or exercises in each chapter. · CD-ROM includes floor plans and furniture templates for students to use on base plans and/or all projects.

Robert Philip Gordon is an architect, planner and designer with an international reputation in multiple design disciplines and as an educator. He currently teaches Architectural Rendering and Design at Columbia College Chicago in the graduate and undergraduate program of Architectural Studies and Interior Architecture. Gordon has previously taught at Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, Chicago, the Academy of Art College in San Francisco, and the Paris/American Academy of Beaux Arts in Paris. His work has been exhibited in galleries and expositions in Chicago, Paris and San Francisco, as well as on the electronic scoreboard at Old Comiskey Park. Gordon has also written numerous articles on architecture and design for newspapers and magazines.

Getting Started
Preliminary Design
Low-Rise Dwellings
Single-Family Detached Homes: The American Dream, A New Model
Attached Townhouses
Remodeling and Adaptive Reuse: The Sustainable Alternative
Important Spaces
Kitchens
Bathrooms
Bedrooms: A Safe Place to Sleep
Multiples: Walk-ups, Midrises, and Towers
Apartment Buildings
Mixing It Up
Mixed-Use Buildings
The Big Picture
Urban Design: The Context of Residential Planning—Putting It All Together