Sustainable Design for Interior Environments

Sustainable Design for Interior Environments builds on the first edition's premise that the interior design profession has a social and moral responsibility to protect the health, safety and welfare of people and the environment. The text equips professors, students and practitioners to design sustainable interiors by addressing LEED certification, environmental concerns, ecosystems, ethics, values, worldviews and the ways in which science and technology can be used to address environmental challenges. Through content, organization and pedagogical features, the book integrates complex sustainability topics directly into the design process, thereby enabling readers to apply the concepts of sustainability with the same ease as they do the elements and principles of design.

Susan M. Winchip, LEED AP, is a Professor Emerita of Interior and Environmental Design in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Illinois State University. She has over 20 years of experience designing residential, corporate, and institutional interiors with specialties in lighting and sustainability. She has published monographs and in several academic journals, including Journal of Interior Design Education and Research, Kappa Omicron Nu FORUM, Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, Quality in Higher Education, and the College Student Journal. Winchip is winner of the ASID Foundation 2010 Polsky Prize Award for her textbook, Visual Culture in the Built Environment: A Global Perspective (Fairchild).