Progress 10/01/08 to 09/30/09
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Intypes Research and Teaching Project. Launched as a free and open web site at www.intypes.cornell.edu. Added two founding partners, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Interior Design magazine. Made numerous presentations about the project to industry leaders, including the IIDA's College of Fellows and Board of Directors, and a paper at the international conference,Communicating by Design, in Brussels, Belgium. PARTICIPANTS: Intypes Research and Teaching Project: Founding Partners are the International Interior Design Association, and Interior Design magazine. Collaborators include: Associate Professor Kathleen Gibson, DEA Department, College of Human Ecology, Cornell; Associate Professor Paula Horrigan, Landscape Architecture Department, College of Agriculture, Cornell; Senior Lecturer E.D. Intemann, Dept. of Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell. Contacts with architecture and design industry leaders, such as Steelcase, Maharam, Shaw Carpet. Advocate network includes: Susan S. Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis magazine; Abigail Brueggeman, Project Manager, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Christopher Budd Managing Principal, Studios Architecture, Washington DC; Maori Hughes Associate and Project Manager, Callison, New York; Mary Anne Beecher Associate Professor , Chair, Interior Design, University of Manitoba. TARGET AUDIENCES: The free and open web site for the Intypes Project reached the following users: interior design practitioners, interior architects, architects; university-level students of interior design, interior architecture, architecture; academic & industry researchers; historic preservationists; trade publishers, editors, writers; trade manufacturers. Talks in internation forums (Brussels and Toronto) reached new international audiences. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
The Intypes Research and Teaching Project identifies ideal examples of historical and culturally determined practices of interior design. The Project creates a typology of contemporary practices that have not been named, generates a design-specific vocabulary and produces a new knowledge base from practice-led research. Research is disseminated through a free, open, searchable web database: intypes.cornell.edu. The web site was launched at NeoCon in June 2009 by founding partners, the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) and Interior Design. In five years the web site will expose the practice of interior design to the public by supplying an unprecedented catalog of in-depth research and digital images of published work. Intypes encourage designers and students to link history and contemporary design using a structured, robust and accessible method. Interior Design magazine published a full-page advertisement about the project in the September 2009 issue. The web site is now linked to variously significant organizations and groups. http://www.iida.org/content.cfm/intypes http://www.interiordesign.net/article/CA6685534.html http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/designLanguage.html http://www.physorg.com/news170525521.html http://www.dexigner.com/architecture/news-g18545.html AMERICAN VERNACULAR BUILDINGS & INTERIORS, 1870-1960. This book deepens the arguments, theories and timelines from the authors' previous two books about ordinary buildings. Thinking about common architecture from the inside out is an appropriate way of examining buildings constructed all across the country, in which the exterior and interior operated separately. The architecture boiled down to a mandate for convenience on the interior and a desire for style on the exterior.
Publications
- Gottfried, Herbert and Jan Jennings. American Vernacular Buildings and Interiors, 1870-1960. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
- Jennings, Jan. Naming Design Practices: Producing a Body of Knowledge of the Creative Dimension of Interior Design. Communicating (by) Design. Brussels, Belgium: Sint Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels, Belgium and Department of Architecture at the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden, 2009, 145-50.
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Progress 10/01/07 to 09/30/08
Outputs
OUTPUTS: RESEARCH PROJECT. INTYPES RESEARCH AND TEACHING PROJECT. The Intypes Project at Cornell University creates a typology of contemporary interior design practices that are derived from reiterative historical designs that span time and style and cross cultural boundaries. The argument for the significance of a typology of historic and contemporary interior design practices is based on 11 years of experiments that has already produced approximately 75 archetypes developed by the principal investigators and graduate students. Intypes identify contemporary design practices that have not been named, thereby providing designers with an interior-specific, history-specific, and contemporary design-specific vocabulary. The project also offers an innovative approach to further design criticism and design sustainability. The Interior Archetypes Project produces a new knowledge base for the creative dimension of design. It is the first project of its kind to assemble contemporary design theory in a searchable database using primary source imagery. The key deliverable is its web site, www.intypes.cornell.edu. Users include interior design practitioners, interior architects, architects; university-level students of interior design, interior architecture, architecture; academic & industry researchers; historic preservationists; trade publishers, editors, writers; trade manufacturers. RESEARCH PROJECT, BOOK. Completed research and writing for a new co-authored book with Herbert Gottfried about American vernacular buildings and interiors from 1870 to 1960. This book is the third in a series of books co-written by the authors. This publication combines exterior and interior studies, adds twenty years to the previous book's time lines, and offers photographs for the first time. There are over 100 photographs and over 300 drawings in the new book. NATIONAL ACTIVITY. Editorial Board Member, Special Series in Vernacular Architecture, Vernacular Architectural Forum. UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY. Editorial Committee for the Development of University Policy 5.11, Web Accessibility. UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY. Committee Member, Mann Library. COLLEGE ACTIVITY. Member, History of Home Economics Fellowship Committee PARTICIPANTS: INTYPES PROJECT, FACULTY RESEARCH GROUP, Jan Jennings, DEA; Kathleen Gibson,DEA; Paula Horrigan, Landscape Architecture; E.D. Intemann, Theatre Film and Dance; INTYPES PROJECT, FOUNDING PARTNER, International Interior Design Association; INTYPES PROJECT, FOUNDING SPONSOR, Interior Design (magazine);INTYPES PROJECT, M.A. GRADUATE STUDENTS,DEA DEPARTMENT, Najung Kim, Jasmin Cho, Rachel Goldfarb, Marta Mendez, Erin Lee, Sara Patterson, Rachel Barry, Joanne Kwan, MinJin Cho; INTYPES PROJECT, CONSULTANTS, Abigail R. Brueggeman, Senior Project Manager, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Susan S. Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis magazine, New York City; INTYPES PROJECT DESIGN PROFESSIONALS, Christopher Budd, Managing Principal, Studios Architecture, Washington, D.C.; Hana Getachew, Associate, Studios Architecture, New York City; Jan Johnson, Vice-President, Market Development, Allsteel, Muscatine, IA; Julie Lin, Designer, Chien Architects & Associates, Taipei, Taiwan; Terry Mak, Designer, Gensler, New York City; Elizabeth O'Brien, Designer, CAMA Incorporated, New Haven, CT;Leah Scolere, Associate, Gensler, Denver; Joori Suh, Interior Architect, Peter Gisolfi Associates, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; Arlyn Vogelmann, Senior Associate, Gensler, Boston; Mijin Julie Yang, Min Associates, Seoul, Korea; INTYPES PROJECT, ACADEMICS, Mary Anne Beecher, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Interior Architecture, University of Manitoba; Jeanne Mercer Ballard, MA, NCIDQ, NCQLP, LEED AP, IES, Assistant Professor and Chair, Interior Design, Appalachian State University; Brian Davies, MA, Associate Professor, Interior Design, University of Cincinnati; Young Heui Yoo, PhD, Associate Professor, Interior Design, Hyupsung University, Korea. TARGET AUDIENCES: INTYPES PROJECT, USERS include interior design practitioners, interior architects, architects; space planners, facility managers, historic preservationists; faculty & students of interior design, interior architecture, architecture programs; academic & industry researchers; trade publishers, editors, writers; manufacturers/reps, dealers, distributors; end users, the public, the press. BOOK PROJECT, AUDIENCE is diverse: historic preservation specialists, practicing architects, interior designers, city planners, the general public, and students of historic preservation, architecture, architectural history, interior design, interior design history. The authors' system has been used to educate real estate agents and to write design guidelines for specific sections of cities or entire small towns. The book will be used by the home improvement market for remodeling and renovations, as well as amateur preservationists. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Nothing significant to report during this reporting period.
Impacts
INTYPES PROJECT. The project is a multi-college collaborative one. Although it was originally conceived as a teaching tool for interior design studio pedagogy and for the design history lecture format, the knowledge base is now also used for design criticism and new scholarship, such as sustainable interior environments. The Intypes have also proved useful in teaching research methods and criticism at the graduate level, especially for courses that focus on exhibition design. The project's web site and knowledge base is used by four Cornell faculty members in three colleges, CHE, CALS, College of Arts and Sciences and in six design-related courses. The Intypes Project has also supported several graduate research theses. In 2008 the International Interior Design Association became the Founding Partner, and Interior Design magazine became a Founding Sponsor. PAPER ACCEPTANCE. Jan Jennings, Naming Design Practices: Producing a Body of Knowledge of the Creative Dimension of Interior Design, Communicating (By) Design, International Conference on Research and Practice in Architecture and Design, St. Lucas School of Architecture in Brussels, Belgium and Department of Architecture at the Chalmers University of Technology in Goteborg, Sweden.
Publications
- Major Professor and Committee Chair, Goldfarb, Rachel. M.A. 2008. Minor Member, Committee Member. Mendez, Marta. M.A. 2008. Minor Member, Committee Member. Lee Ann Abernathy. M.S. 2008.
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Progress 10/01/06 to 09/30/07
Outputs
OUTPUTS: The INTERIOR ARCHETYPES RESEARCH AND TEACHING PROJECT, initiated in 1997 at Cornell University, creates a typology of contemporary interior design practices that are derived from reiterative historical designs that span time and style and cross cultural boundaries. An argument for the significance of a typology of historic and contemporary interior design practices is based on ten years of experiments resulting from the project. Approximately 100 archetypes have been developed by the principal investigator, graduate students and associated educators. The premises for the research model and the methodological, theoretical and pedagogical implications of the study for students and practitioners have been well established. Interior Archetypes name contemporary design practices that have not been named, thereby providing designers with an interior-specific, history-specific, and contemporary design-specific vocabulary. The project also offers an innovative approach to further
design criticism and design sustainability. The Interior Archetypes Project will disseminate a new knowledge base for the creative dimension of design, the productions of practitioners. It is the first project of its kind to assemble contemporary design theory in an interactive and searchable database using primary source imagery. The key deliverable of Interior Archetypes is its web site. ATTENDED SEMINAR. Invention to Venture Workshop in Technology Entrepreneurship, a one day workshop on commercialization for Cornell faculty CONDUCTED ARCHIVAL RESEARCH. For a new book project, At Home at College, American Student Rooms, 1870 to 1960, research conducted at Dartmouth University, Ohio University, Ohio State University GRADUATE STUDENT THESES. Supervising three M.A. graduate students who are researching for the Interior Archetype Research and Teaching Project. NATIONAL ACTIVITY. Editorial Board Member, Special Series in Vernacular Architecture, Vernacular Architectural Forum, 2007, 2008
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY. Editorial Committee for the Development of University Policy 5.11, Web Accessibility, 2007 COLLEGE ACTIVITY. Member, History of Home Economics Fellowship Committee
PARTICIPANTS: INTERIOR ARCHETYPES TEACHING AND RESEARCH PROJECT. Cornell University Faculty, Kathleen Gibson, Associate Professor, Interior Design, Cornell University; Paula H. Horrigan, Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, Cornell University; E.D. Intemann, Resident Lighting Designer & Senior Lecturer, Theatre, Film and Dance, Cornell University; Graduate Students, Najung Kim, Rachel Goldfarb, Jasmin Cho, Marta Mendez, Erin Lee; Professional Collaborators, Susan S. Szenasy, Editor-in-Chief, Metropolis magazine, New York City; Abigail R. Brueggeman, Senior Project Manager, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago; Christopher Budd, Managing Principal, Studios Architecture, Washington, D.C.; Elizabeth O'Brien, Designer, CAMA Incorporated, New Haven; Leah Scolere, Designer, Gensler, Denver NEW BOOK PROJECT. Inside-Out: American Modern Vernacular Buildings, 1870-1960, co-author with Cornell Univeristy Emeritus Professor Herbert Gottfried
TARGET AUDIENCES: INTERIOR ARCHETYPES RESEARCH AND TEACHING PROJECT. university students majoring in professional programs of interior design; architects and designers in practice; design history and design researchers. NEW BOOK PROJECT. Inside-Out: American Modern Vernacular Buildings, 1870-1960. The audience is reasonably diverse, historic preservation specialists; practicing architects, interior designers, city planners for understanding district and neighborhood characteristics; the general public; and students of historic preservation, architecture, architectural history, interior design, interior design history. The book may be of use to educate real estate agents and to write design guidelines for specific sections of cities or entire small towns. The book will be helpful for the home improvement market, such as remodelers and renovators, as well as amateur preservationists.
Impacts
BOOK IMPACT. Jan Jennings. Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Architectural Competitions and the Convenient Interior, 1879-1909. University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Nominated for the 2007 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award with the Society of Architectural Historians Nominated for the 2007 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award with the Vernacular Architecture Forum Nominated for the 2006 Abbott Lowell Cummings Award with the Vernacular Architecture Forum Nominated for the Mary Ellen LoPresti Award with the Art Libraries Society of North America, Southeast Chapter GRANT AWARDED. Faculty Innovation in Teaching for New Web Development for the Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project, $50,000 CORNELL UNIVERSITY ALUMNI TALKS. Cornell's Historic Links to Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings for the Cornell University Alumni Associations in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Lincoln, April 2007 COLLEGE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY ALUMNI TALKS. Cornell's Historic Links to Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings for the College of
Human Ecology's Alumni Associations in Denver and Chicago, October 2006.
Publications
- Jennings, J. 2007. A Case for a Typology of Design: The Interior Archetypes Project. Journal of Interior Design 32, No. 3, May 2007, 48-65.
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Progress 01/01/06 to 12/31/06
Outputs
I achieved my goal to advance the Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project, now in its tenth year. The project benefited greatly, because sabbatical leave allowed me to focus on it alone and to give it the attention it needed. I now have in place a long-term strategy that includes how, when and for whom I will ask for monetary support. I also met with several key individuals at Cornell and elsewhere about copyright issues for the project. These meetings were very helpful, and I have a clear understanding of how to proceed. I added a new consultant to the project, a 1996 alumna of our program. I also presented the project to the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in Chicago and asked for its endorsement. There I received a enthusiastic response from the IIDAs CEO and executive vice-president and her team, and the IIDA is now committed to being a part of the project. The project is now in the Preparing for Dissemination stage. After this stage is
completed, Interior Archetypes, a web-based catalog, will be self-sustaining and available without fees to anyone. I also gained in defining my new book project, At Home at College: American Student Rooms, 1870-1940. The weeks I spent in residence at Ohio University and Dartmouth College allowed me the opportunity to really think about my goals, the books intention and its audience. Moreover, I examined original sources that helped shape my plan. I was surprised and happy to learn that many archives have generated digital collections, thus saving me from travel and on-site visits to many.
Impacts
My book, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Design Competitions and the Convenient Interior, published in 2005 is garnering national attention because no professor in the field has written an interpretive history of interior design theory. The Interior Archetypes Research and Teaching Project creates a typology of contemporary design practices that are derived from reiterative historical designs that span time and style and cross cultural boundaries. Archetypes name contemporary design practices that have not been named, thereby providing designers with an interior-specific, history-specific, and contemporary design-specific vocabulary. The Interior Archetypes establish a new and significant contribution to the theory-base of the interior design field and profession. The project has sustained nine M.A. research theses.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/04 to 12/31/04
Outputs
Book Project. In 1879, Carpentry & Building magazine launched its first design competition for a cheap house. Forty-two competitions, eighty-six winning designs, and a slew of near winners and losers resulted in a body of work that offers an entire history of an architectural culture. The competitions represented a vital period of transition in terms of delineating roles and responsibilities of architectural services and building trades. The contests helped to define the training, education, and values of 'practical architects' and to solidify house-planning ideals. The practice lives of ordinary architects who competed in Carpentry and Building contests offer a reinterpretation of architectural professionalization in this time period. Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings examines this unusual facet of American architectural history. Jan Jennings thoroughly explores the results of these competitions, conducted over a thirty year period, from 1879 to 1909. The book outlines
the philosophy behind and procedures developed for running the competitions; looks at characteristics of the eighty-six winners of the competitions; examines the nature of architectural practices during the period; analyzes the winning competition designs; and provides biographical details of competition winners and losers. Historical Theory Project. Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications in History and Theory is an on-going project for the Cornell Design Exchange, a web-based clearinghouse for design research. A Design Brief summarizes an interior design practice in contemporary usage by tracing a series of traits as a continuum back through several historic periods and across cultures. Approximately 150 Briefs have been researched, written and mounted on the Exchange web site by Jennings and her graduate students. The premise is that contemporary interior design practices have historical underpinnings that can be examined as a series of traits, suggesting cultural
continuities and sequences.
Impacts
Book Project. A landmark book in architectural history, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings makes a compelling case for the theory of convenient arrangement, its history, its role, its principles, its relationship to contemporary interior design education, and its meaning to American architecture. More importantly, the book explains the impact of Carpentry and Building's contests in furthering the tenants of convenient arrangement for house design. By using extensive material from the magazine, Jennings leaves little doubt as to how important this overlooked story is to the history of American architecture as a whole. Historical Theory Project. The 150 Briefs are used by Cornell University's design students on a regular basis as a means of informing students of contemporary design and its historical precedents.
Publications
- Jennings, J. 2005. Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Design Competitions and the Convenient Interior. University of Tennessee Press, in press.
- Jennings, J., Scholere, L., Suh, J., Yang, J., Huang, J., Davies, B. 2004. Interior Design Briefs: Applications in History and Theory. Cornell Design Exchange, Cornell University.
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Progress 01/01/03 to 12/31/03
Outputs
Progress, Book Project, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Practical Architects and The Convenient Interior, publication contract with the University of Tennessee Press to be published spring 2005.
Impacts
The book, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Practical Architects and The Convenient Interior, addresses a topic that has never been examined in a full-length work, the late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century housing competition phenomenon. By examining forty-two competitions sponsored by Carpentry and Building magazine between 1879 and 1909, Jennings offers a new interpretation about how common building practices and some formalist principles coalesce into one body, the theory of convenient arrangement for the interior.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/02 to 12/31/02
Outputs
1. Book Project: Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909, advance publication agreement with the University of Tennessee Press. In October 2002, the book was revised and resubmitted to the Press. The author has received comments from one of the reviewers (highly positive) and is waiting on another. 2. Project: Jan Jennings. Robert Lawton Jones House, 1959, Tulsa OK. National Register of Historic Places Nomination. The Jones House was successfully listed and is the first International Style house in the State of Oklahoma listed by the National Register. 3. Chair of paper session: 'Roadside and Leisure Architecture,' Vernacular Architecture Forum International conference, Williamsburg Virginia, 2002. 4. Facilitator: 'JID Reports from the Field,' Journal of Interior Design Workshop, Interior Design Educators Council International Conference, Santa Fe, 2002. 5. Summer Research Grant: ($2500) with undergraduate student Virginia
Gaskins to research the nineteenth century American Arts and Crafts Movement and its relationship to sustainability as a contemporary movement, 2002. 6. Research Project: Convened the Color Study Group of scholars and practicing designers to research and apply results of color and lighting studies in interior design investigations. The group staged one project with undergraduate design students and is evaluating the results.
Impacts
The book, 'Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings,' will offer a new interpretation about why and how the house interior, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, facilitated a national vernacular architecture. The listing of the Robert Lawton Jones House to the National Register of Historic Places recognizes a new category in understanding the built environment in the State of Oklahoma. Research with an undergraduate student about an historic movement, such as the Arts and Crafts, will expand the potential to develop a movement for a sustainable environment. The investigations of the Color Study Group will advance the way in which interior designers understand the relationships between artificial lighting and color.
Publications
- Jennings, J. 2002. Robert Lawton Jones House, 1959, Tulsa, Oklahoma. National Register of Historic Places.
- Jennings, J. 2003. Dialectic of the New and Old: Theory Investigations in Interior Design. Interiors & Sources. April 2003, in-press.
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Progress 01/01/01 to 12/31/01
Outputs
1. Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Design Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909. Book-length manuscript, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909; in revision , University of Tennessee Press 2. Ideal Interiors, Practical Realities: Dimensions of Living in Remote Parts of the Country. Grant application submitted, 08/2001: U.S.D.A. Hatch Grant, total project costs for first year: $7450; Project: Ideal Interiors, Practical Realities: Dimensions of Living in Remote Parts of the Country Acquisition of 100 historical photographs for a future book, Market Architecture; purchased from private funds 3. Appropriate Appropriations: An Examination of Ethnic Theme Interiors. Research regarding cultural appropriation of ethnic theme interior environments continues. Invited paper, 10/2001, Kon Tiki, Kahiki, and Wan: Landscapes for Dining; Conference: Landscapes Sublime, Popular, Ruined, Surreal Research / revision continues
for submittal as a refereed article. 4. Cornell Design Exchange. Grant application; November 2001, $15,000; Joel Polsky/Fixtures Furniture/IIDA Foundation for Project: Implementing Exchange in Design Exchange 5. Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications in History and Theory. Grant application; 10/2000, $7000; Seed and Innovation Award for Experienced Faculty (College of Human Ecology, Cornell University); Project: Developing the Design Briefs as a Prototypical Component of the Cornell Design Exchange; denied Regarding application of Interior Design Briefs in contemporary practice: implementation of a Community Outreach Arts Project Grant plus other funding sources; $5000; Project: Lightpassage
Impacts
1. Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Design Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909. no impact until book is published 2. Ideal Interiors, Practical Realities: Dimensions of Living in Remote Parts of the Country. This study contributes to interpretations of American values regarding the built environment, especially in the areas of rural and family life. Research funding pending. 3. Appropriate Appropriations: An Examination of Ethnic Theme Interiors. A series of case studies suggest intersections of cultural, material, and design contexts regarding restaurants and their propensity for ethnic theme interiors. 10/2001: invited paper, Kon Tiki, Kahiki, and Wan: Landscapes for Dining, at the Conference: Landscapes Sublime, Popular, Ruined, Surreal, organized by the Cornell University Department of Architecture 4. Cornell Design Exchange. The Cornell Design Exchange establishes a self-sustaining learning experience for use by the professional, the professor, and
the student. 5. Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications in History and Theory. Approximately 30 Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications from History and Theory, were used by undergraduate and graduate students in two courses (DEA 251 and DEA 668, Department of Design & Environmental Analysis, Cornell University). Installation of three full-scale student designed projects occurred in 05/2001; the installations remained in the City Hall Plaza until 05/2001.
Publications
- No publications reported this period
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Progress 01/01/00 to 12/31/00
Outputs
American 19th and 20th Century Design History Theory Criticism is the umbrella for several on-going projects. A book-length manuscript, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909, was submitted to a publisher in July 2000. This project culminates several years of research effort. Research for a new book-length manuscript will begin in 2001, with the working title of Practical Architecture and Design, 1879-1945. Research is on-going for the project, Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications in History and Theory. The research focuses on a series of approximately 100 Design Briefs that summarize a discourse about a contemporary interior element or principle by tracing design characteristics through historic periods and across cultures. The Design Briefs are being mounted on the Cornell Design Exchange web site. The Cornell Design Exchange project, a web site, serves as a clearinghouse for contemporary design issues. It
acts as a teaching place to disseminate critical inquiries and to deepen the understanding of contemporary interior architecture and design. The Cornell Design Exchange establishes a self-sustaining learning experience for use by the professional, the professor, and the student.
Impacts
The book manuscript, Cheap and Tasteful Dwellings: Competitions for Carpenters and Architects, 1879-1909, will have no impact until it is published. The case study will offer new insight into the professional aspirations, means of education and training, and careers of about 100 carpenters and architects who entered the design competitions sponsored by a builders' journal, Carpentry and Building. The study also focuses on the house designs that emerged from the competitions. Approximately 30 Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications from History and Theory, were used by undergraduate and graduate students in two courses (DEA 251 and DEA 668, Department of Design & Environmental Analysis, Cornell University). The Cornell Design Exchange, a web site, plugs a gap in design education and practice. There are no overviews of design that examine issues, themes and trends, no examination of historical or theoretical connections to contemporary work, and no accessible
dissemination of human environment and behavioral research, such as the work conducted in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University.
Publications
- Jennings, Jan. Interior Design Briefs: Contemporary Applications from History and Theory. www.design exchange.cornell.edu, Cornell University, 2000, pp. 1-30. Approximately 30 Interior Design Briefs have been completed and are mounted on the research web site, the Cornell Design Exchange.
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