Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design

ISBN-13: 9780415308700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str.

Kathryn Moore

Opis

Connecting the theory of design to its practice, this book encourages rigorous debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. It challenges the traditional foundations of design theory making it interesting reading for professionals and students in the architecture and design fields.

Spis treści

Foreword Paul Shepheard  Preface  1. Introduction  2. The Sensory Interface and Other Myths and Legends  3. Teaching the Unknowable  4. Aesthetics: The Truth, The Whole Truth and Universal Truth  5. Objectivity Without Neutrality  6. Studied Ignorance  7. Seeing is Believing  8. Theory into Practice.  Bibliography

O autorze

Kathryn Moore has lectured and published extensively on design quality, theory, education and practice. She is past President of the Landscape Institute, UK representative of IFLA, a design consultant,and is Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University, UK.