2002 Conference Proceedings - Interior Design Educators Council

Organizations pressing for title or practice legislation would find little support from thejournalists in the millennial year, in that issues of life safety and code compliance wereabsent from descriptive articles focussed more on cosmetics than human welfare.Interestingly, architects received credit for the majority of the interiors featured in thearticles analyzed.While Birdsong and Lawlor report that few practitioners perceive a graduate degree asan important component of our profession, the small number of published interior designinstallations credited to interior designers could prompt students to place higher value onan undergraduate degree in architecture.ReferencesBirdsong, C. & Lawlor, P. J. (2001). Perceptions of professionalism: Interior designpractitioners working for the top 100 firms. Journal of Interior Design,27 (1), 20-34.Drab, T. (1997). The portrayal of interior design in periodicals. Interior Design EducatorsCouncil Conference Abstracts, 72-73.Giattina, J. P. (2000). Address on interior design legislation delivered to NCARBAnnual Meeting, June 14.Moore, W. E. (1970). The Professions: Roles and Rules. New York: Russell SageFoundation.Piotrowski, C. (1994). Professional Practice for Interior Designers. New York: Wiley.Turpin, J. C. (2001). Omitted, devalued, ignored: Reevaluating the historicalinterpretation of women in the interior design profession. Journal of InteriorDesign, 27 (1), 1-11.31