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zation’s culture and practices, all of which help define the environment. Designers must understand and apply knowledge about pe ...

The challenge is to embrace these principles and develop these disciplines. The result will be better, more satisfied individual ...

CHAPTER 246  Information Technology in Interior Design WILLIAM J. MITCHELL Copyright 2002 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. C ...

T Traditionally, interior designers have employed two-dimensional draw- ings and three-dimensional scale models to represent des ...

PART TWO STRATEGY 248 TRANSLATING AMONG REPRESENTATIONS Each of the three basic formsEach of the three basic forms of representa ...

steps are mechanical, but sometimes they are used as opportunities to make decisions and add information. For example, two-dimen ...

PART TWO STRATEGY 250 FIGURE 14-2 Different types of representations of a building and translation paths among them. allow desig ...

CHAPTER 14 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 251 become available to support sophisticated interfaces, graphical interaction with CAD syste ...

PART TWO STRATEGY 252 by the Luminous Table, developed at MIT’s Media Laboratory by John Underkoffler and Hiroshi Ishii (Figure ...

CHAPTER 14 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 253 FIGURE 14-6 Relationship of a 3-D digital model of a building to different types of interf ...

EMERGENCE OF CAD/CAM CONSTRUCTION Most early CAD systemsMost early CAD systems were intended for use as drafting systems. Their ...

cal models as well as two-dimensional prints and plots. An even more impor- tant advantage is that it can be used to drive compu ...

PART TWO STRATEGY 256 FIGURE 14-8 Frank Gehry, curved glass interior of the Conde-Nast cafeteria, New York. the complex curved s ...

CHAPTER 14 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 257 forms of the Conde-Nast interior would have been extremely difficult to rep- resent using ...

PART TWO STRATEGY 258 precise simulation and visualization of both natural and artificial airflows within spaces, and hence more ...

Where plans, sections, and elevations are needed, these two-dimensional rep- resentations will automatically be produced as spec ...

dot.com startups have emerged to offer comprehensive, on-line management and distribution of design and construction data. Wheth ...

CHAPTER 14 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 261 Synchronous Local Remote Asynchronous Face-to-face conference Pin-up Jury Drawing archive ...

asynchronous interaction, through e-mail, voice-mail, and the web, is the most inexpensive and convenient but the least direct. ...

Bibliography Mitchell, William J., and Malcolm McCullough. Digital Design Media(Sec- ond Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinho ...