Residential Design III: Cultural Research: Introduction

This guide is designed to help you locate Library resources about a country and its culture.  Residential Design III students are required to design a project that incorporates global and multi-cultural issues, diverse populations across age, culture, income, physical abilities, as well as the principles of adaptive reuse and historic preservation. 

Image courtesy of Haciendas: Spanish and Colonial Houses in the U.S. and Mexico by Linda Leigh Paul.Pizzoli, 2008.  

The required and suggested texts for this class are all available in the NYSID Library.  To find them, simply enter the title of the book into the search bar in our library's catalog Bobcat. A few of the texts are also available as e-books which can be accessed via out e-book subscription database EBook Central.  Below are links directly to the class material:

Required:

1. Mitton, Maureen and Courtney Nystuen. Residential Interior Design (E-book). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2016. 

Suggested: 

1. Binggeli, Corky. Interior Graphic Standards Student Edition. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley 2012. 
2. Fisher, Ellen. New York School of Interior Design Home: The Foundations of Enduring Spaces. New York: Clarkson Potter, 2018. Also available electronically via EBSCOhost Ebooks.