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Design and truth /

Robert Grudin explores the role of design in our daily lives, focusing especially on how political & economic powers impress themselves on us through the built environment.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grudin, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Homage to Rikyu: design, truth, and power. Sen no Rikyu and the paradox of innovation
  • Good design tells the truth
  • What design and truth say about each other
  • Design as tragedy: the rise and fall of the Twin Towers
  • Edsel's law: how bad design happens
  • Designs of darkness
  • Face to face with design
  • pt. 2. Homage to Vasari: design, knowledge, and energy. Giorgio Vasari and the permutations of design
  • The lady in the picture: design and revelation in Renaissance art
  • In Jefferson's footsteps: modes of self-design
  • Jefferson's gravestone: metaphorical extensions of design
  • Liberty as a knowledge design
  • Corporate redesign and the business of knowledge
  • Designing time
  • The design of private knowledge
  • Epilogue. Designing truth.