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  • Perforate
  • Lonely Couple
  • White Box
  • Camouflage

provide names for unnamed practices of interior design, such as

wunderkammer, naked, lonely couple

  • Ceiling
  • Color
  • Material
  • Wall

help you search a constituent part of an interior design, such as

lighting, color, material

  • Boutique Hotel
  • Resort & Spa
  • Restaurant
  • House

provide you with focused areas of specialization, such as

healthcare, restaurant, house

The Intypes (Interior Archetypes) Research and Teaching Project at Cornell creates a typology of contemporary interior design practices that are derived from reiterative historical designs that span time and style and cross cultural boundaries.

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Editor-in-Chief of Interior Design, Cindy Allen regards the Intypes Project as an "extraordinary undertaking - 13 years in the making - as sure to invigorate the education process by creating a new vocabulary to define contemporary design. Bravo!"