Bryan Orthel

Program Director, Interior Design; Associate Professor, Interior Design

Email:
bdorthel@indiana.edu
Interests:
Interior design, design and culture, heritage and preservation, design thinking
Campus:
IU Bloomington
Kirkwood Hall 320

Education

  • Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Design and History, Washington State University
  • Master of Historic Preservation, University of Kentucky
  • Bachelor of Architecture, University of Oregon

About

Bryan D. Orthel, PhD, RID, NCIDQ, RA, NCARB, is associate professor of design and director of the Interior Design Program. His interdisciplinary background and professional experience shape his interest in the breadth of problems. In professional practice, he designed for small-scale commercial clients and worked on preservation programs assisting traditional communities. His scholarship explores how we understand and use history and heritage in design and in daily living. He also researches the pedagogy of design, design thinking, and creativity. His work has been published in the Journal of Interior Design, as well as Buildings & Landscapes, Interiors: Design | Architecture | Culture, the International Journal of Heritage Studies, Geographical Review, Preservation Education & Research, the Society of Architectural Historian’s Archipedia, and SAGE Open. He is an active member of IDEC, chair of the Journal of Interior Design Board of Directors, a former director (and president) of the IDEC Foundation, and former editor of the IDEC Exchange.

Selected Publications

Orthel, B.D. (2022b). Geography, heritage, and things: Analyzing an agricultural landscape in southern Idaho. Geographical Review, 112(4): 569-590. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2020.1865815

Orthel, B.D. (2022a). Linking public health and heritage work. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 28(1), 44-58. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2021.1903969

Orthel, B.D. (2020). Living and moving, thingly (interior) history. In D.E. Vaux and D. Wang (Eds.), Research methods for interior design: Applying interiority (pp. 89-105). Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge.

Orthel, B.D. (2019). “Ellsworth Storey family residence.” In G. Esperdy and K. Kingsley (Eds.), Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia (State of Washington) (online). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Accessed from http://sah-archipedia.org/

Orthel, B.D. (2019). “Pilchuck Glass School.” In G. Esperdy and K. Kingsley (Eds.), Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia (State of Washington) (online). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Accessed from http://sah-archipedia.org/

Orthel, B.D. (2019). “Proto-Cathedral of St. James the Greater.” In G. Esperdy and K. Kingsley (Eds.), Society of Architectural Historians Archipedia (State of Washington) (online). Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Accessed from http://sah-archipedia.org/

Orthel, B.D. and Anderson, B.G. (2018). ‘This will kill that:’ Technology and the social construction of preservation. In R.D. Wagner and d. P. Tiller (Eds.), Creating historic preservation in the 21st century (pp. 162-183). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars.

Orthel, B.D. (2017). Preserving public health: A literature review. In Proceedings from the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) conference. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.7945/C2GM4F

Day, J.K. and Orthel, B.D. (2017). Understanding the [design] problem in addressing human-building interfaces. In Proceedings from the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) conference. Cincinnati, Ohio: University of Cincinnati. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.7945/C2RD6M

Orthel, B.D. (2016). Preservation and negotiation of history and identity in Lexington, Kentucky. Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 23(2), 23-52. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/buildland.23.2.0023

Orthel, B.D. and Day, J.K. (2016). Processing beyond drawing: A case study exploring ideation for teaching design. SAGE Open. (July-September), 1-16. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244016663285

Orthel, B.D. (2015). Implications of design thinking for teaching, learning, and inquiry. Journal of Interior Design, 40(3), 1-20. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/joid.12046

Orthel, B.D. (2014). Ordinary wallpaper: Identity and use of history. Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture, 5(3), 361-389. Stable URL: https://doi.org/10.2752/204191114X14126916211300