Interior Design History and Theory

What are architectural stylistic periods?

What is the difference between PERIODS and STYLES?
The heading Architecture may be subdivided by time period or style.

Favrile Glass Bowl Designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany
(American, New York 1848–1933 New York) ca. 1908;
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

ARCHITECTURE / INTERIOR DESIGN by DECADES:  Advanced Search

Try using subject keywords from the Architecture by Style / Time Period tab on the Subject Terms / Headings research guide.

To find books on Architecture for specific decades use the following search strategy (for Architecture in the 1930s as an example) type:

Architecture (in Subject) and 1930? (in All Fields).  

Using the "?" after will pick up 1930, 1930s or 1930's in the title, description, or the contents sections of the record.

See the MUSEUM OBJECT RESEARCH tab for search tips

Encyclopedia References:

Online Resources:

EXAMPLES:

To find books on interior design or architecture during specific decades, in Advanced Search, type each term in the "SUBJECT" fields. Please note decades are always spelled out in the subject fields of catalog records. Interior Decoration and Architecture are common subject terms denoting Interior Design.  

Interior Decoration (in subject) and 20th Century (in subject)
Architecture (in subject) and 19th Century (in subject)
Modern (in subject) and Architecture (in subject)
Architecture (in subject) and Philosophy (in subject)

If you receive too many results with the above strategy, you can limit your search by typing decade or date into the TITLE field, while keeping Interior Decoration or Architecture in the SUBJECT field.

1920s (in title) and Interior Decoration (in subject)
1960s (in title) and Architecture (in subject)

• Search OneSearch, the FIT Library's online catalog, using a word or phrase describing your topic and adding the phrase "pictorial works" or "in art" to find books that are highly illustrated.
  For example: stores will get you books that might have some photos, charts or illustrations, but stores pictorial works will list those that are the most heavily illustrated.
  "Mythology in art" will definitely find illustrated books; "mythology" books might be mostly or only text.
• In the OneSearch record for a book, the field marked "description" might indicated "plates",  "ill." or "illus." (illustrated or illustrations) and "chiefly ill." means the book is mostly visuals.
• Of course for some topics--such as designers, artists, art movements--virtually all the books in the FIT Library contain images, so don't worry if you can't find anything labeled "pictorial works".

1. Enter your Subject Term or Keyword(s): for example REVIVALISM

2. Limit the SUBJECT to ARCHITECTURE (left side of the search results)

3. Limit your RESOURCE TYPE (Reference Materials, Articles, Books, etc..)