Designing Commercial Interiors

Practical, comprehensive resource for commercial interior design, covering research, execution, safety, sustainability, and legal considerations

Designing Commercial Interiors explores the entire design process of commercial projects from planning to execution to teach the vital considerations that will make each project a success. This book delivers a solid understanding of the myriad factors in play throughout designing restaurants, offices, lodging, retail and healthcare facilities.

Updates to the newly revised Fourth Edition include changes to office space design to promote flexibility, post-pandemic considerations for work and interior design, the latest industry certification requirements, sustainable design considerations. and safety/legal codes. Updated supplemental instructor’s resources, including a revised instructor’s manual with sample test questions and exercises are available on the companion website. A list of terms fundamental to each chapter has also been added at the end of each chapter.

Other topics covered in Designing Commercial Interiors include:

• A thorough review of relevant design and research skills and methods
• How the global marketplace shapes designers’ business activities
• Product specification principles, WELL, and LEED certification and credentials
• Accessible design in facilities, elements of evidence-based design, and adaptive reuse
• Project manager responsibilities, working with stakeholders, and special considerations for executive-level clients
• Project delivery methods, including design-bid-build, design-build, and integrated design

Designing Commercial Interiors is an authoritative and complete reference on the subject for university and community college students in programs related to interior design and those preparing for the NCIDQ exam. The text is also valuable as a general reference for interior designers less familiar with commercial interior design.

Christine M. Piotrowski, FASID, IIDA, of Phoenix, Arizona, has more than 30 years of commercial and residential design experience and is a retired Professor of interior design with 16 years of teaching experience at Northern Arizona University. Piotrowski was President of the Arizona North Chapter of ASID in 2002-2003 and served on ASID national committees as well as NCIDQ committees. She has won the ASID/Polsky Prize twice and is the author of Professional Practice for Interior Designers, 6th edition.