DEVELOPMENT OF TAIWANESE INTERIOR DESIGN SINCE THE END OF WORLD WAR II

Abstract

This paper is intended to discuss the development of interior design in Taiwan since the end of World War II in 1945 until today. The author adopts the literature analysis method to gather and examine related documents on post-war socio-cultural backgrounds to study the development of interior design. Historical records are sorted through to extract valuable materials to compensate for the shortage of files on the development of interior design. The main conclusions are as follows: Society, culture, politics, and economy have influenced the development of interior design in Taiwan. The governmental, industrial, and academic developments of interior design corresponding to the needs of the times. There were differences between design thinking and techniques from the early stage in which professionals with an art design or architectural background dominated design to the period in which graduates from the department of interior design became common.