Most architects will say that “interior design is inferior to architecture”. With AIA, American Institute of Architects and NCARB, National Council of Architectural Registration Board lobbying against interior design to be deregulated of licensing and titling for future professional, it is pretty obvious how architects perceive interior design. Decorators like the ones seen on HGTV make interior design look like an entire could be completed in hour, when it takes months sometimes years to actually just put it all together. Decorators consider themselves to be Interior Designers, although through the NCIDQ, legally they are not. ASID, American Society of Interior Design, FIDER, Foundation for Interior Design of Education and Research, and the NCIDQ, National Council of Interior Design Qualifications, all collaboratively oversee the development and maintence of these criteria for education and practice.
Architecture, Interior Design, and Decorating (in a very specific order) all have three completely separate definitions. According to dictionary.com architecture means the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect, interior design means the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features and decorating means to plan and execute the furnishings and ornamentation of the interior. According to Jessica Napoli, home of this blog, these definitions need a little tweaking. For starters, architecture is the beginning stages of building. They are the skeletal structure of a building. The pieces that make the card house stand up. They deal with anything that is structural in a building through supports. Decorating is simply that. It is taking a space that is pre-determined and changing fabrics, paint and furniture. Interior Design is a slight combination of the two with advancement in the design element. Like I’ve mentioned in my previous blog it’s something more than most people think. Interior Design is taking the health and safety of public and design a space(s) that are both true to form and function of its users.
Architecture, Interior Design, and Decorating (in a very specific order) all have three completely separate definitions. According to dictionary.com architecture means the profession of designing buildings, open areas, communities, and other artificial constructions and environments, usually with some regard to aesthetic effect, interior design means the design and coordination of the decorative elements of the interior of a house, apartment, office, or other structural space, including color schemes, fittings, furnishings, and sometimes architectural features and decorating means to plan and execute the furnishings and ornamentation of the interior. According to Jessica Napoli, home of this blog, these definitions need a little tweaking. For starters, architecture is the beginning stages of building. They are the skeletal structure of a building. The pieces that make the card house stand up. They deal with anything that is structural in a building through supports. Decorating is simply that. It is taking a space that is pre-determined and changing fabrics, paint and furniture. Interior Design is a slight combination of the two with advancement in the design element. Like I’ve mentioned in my previous blog it’s something more than most people think. Interior Design is taking the health and safety of public and design a space(s) that are both true to form and function of its users.
Architecture has been said to be superior to Interior Design, and this a constant struggle that the field as whole is trying to get out from underneath. Although there are pre-dominantly more men in architecture and more women in interior design, as the new generation is coming into its own, we are seeing a mixture of the two genders even spread throughout both professions. It’s not that women are “just as good as” men. But instead we are equals with women pulling ahead of men in certain areas and vice versa.
Decorating is something that an uneducated designer can do. They have no formal education or experience of federal code standards or human factors of space. They have no idea how lighting can affect a space based on its exterior environment or how dimensional finishes will fit or look on a floor plan. Most decorators can go on a trip to Home Depot and Rooms To Go on a weekend adventure and complete their idea of an Interior Design project without even thinking about the idea of demolition and renovation.
Interior Design as a profession has started to spread its roots of history and advocacy of the profession more and more and will only continue to do so in the future.
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” - Charles Eames
Decorating is something that an uneducated designer can do. They have no formal education or experience of federal code standards or human factors of space. They have no idea how lighting can affect a space based on its exterior environment or how dimensional finishes will fit or look on a floor plan. Most decorators can go on a trip to Home Depot and Rooms To Go on a weekend adventure and complete their idea of an Interior Design project without even thinking about the idea of demolition and renovation.
Interior Design as a profession has started to spread its roots of history and advocacy of the profession more and more and will only continue to do so in the future.
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” - Charles Eames
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