ALTERNATIVE METHODS OF TEACHING INTERIOR DESIGN STYLISTICS

Cristina Maria Povian

 Associate Professor, PhD Architect, “Politehnica” University Timișoara, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, Center for Research and Sustainable Development, ROMANIA, cristina.povian@yahoo.com

Abstract

The design of contemporary pieces of furniture cannot be reduced to imitating the styles of the past, but the knowledge of their main characteristics and their critical analysis can represent a basis for the creations of the present, which innovatively capitalize the assimilated sources. Furniture styling is a broad subject matter required to train an interior designer or architect. Starting from the types of furniture, continuing with the ornamentation, with the analysis of the main architectural styles of interior, starting from the antiquity and up to the present, treating each new style appeared according to the historical context, geographical region, characteristic ornamentation, typologies of furniture pieces but and from the point of view of the technological innovation characteristic of that period.

 The acquirement of knowledge in the field of interior styling is not only necessary to have the necessary basis to create modern furniture, adapted to the current requirements and technology, as well as to capitalize on furniture pieces of important styles prior to our period and their stylistic harmonization in a contemporary context or with other pieces of furniture of different styles.

The purpose of this article is to present the results obtained in the practical part of the "Interior Stylistics" course, which supported the didactic process representing an alternative method of assimilating the concepts taught in the course by taking several steps. This article present the main steps, results and conclusions obtained from this application part, which proves that using alternative methods of teaching improve the learning even in the theoretical courses with a significant amount of information and data.

Keywords: alternative methods, interior architecture, stylistics, furniture