Interior Design Materials and Technology

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Searching for "INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE" as a subject will result in some of the following topics:

• Architecture
• Buildings -- Environmental aspects
• Environmental Protection
• Ergonomics (use "human engineering or human comfort")
• Furniture Design
• Furniture Making
• Historic buildings -- Remodeling for other use
• Historic buildings -- Conservation and Restoration
• Interior Architecture -- Design
• Interior Decoration -- Environmental Aspects
• Industrial Design
• Sustainability
• Sustainable Design
• Sociology, Urban

Searching ALL FIELDS as keywords for "INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE" will result in more (sometimes unexpected) topics since each word is found randomly in the catalog record's Title, Description, Subject or Notes, instead of only in the subject of the item.

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Try these additional subject headings:

• Interior architecture
• Interior decoration
• Interior decoration Marketing
• Interior decoration Practice
• Interior decoration Practice Economic aspects
• Interior decoration firms Economic aspects
• Interior decoration firms Management
• Interior decoration Vocational guidance
• Architecture - Domestic
• Architecture and Society

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