The nature and aesthetics of design / David Pye

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., c1978Description: 159 pages : illustrations ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 442266510
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NK 1510 .P94 1978
Contents:
1. Arts and science. energy. results -- 2. Invention and design distinguised -- 3. The six requirements for design -- 4. The geometry of a device -- 5. Techniques. Skill -- 6. Inventions: analogous results -- 7. We can wish for impossibilities. Utility. Improvement. Economy -- 8. The requirements conflict. compromise -- 9. Useless work. Workmanship -- 10. Architecture. inventing the objects -- 11. 'Function' and fiction -- 12. The designer's responsibility -- 13. The aesthetics of design -- 14. Perception and looking -- 15. Taste and style -- 16. Originality -- 17. The common ground between visual art and music. what we really see.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NK 1510 .P94 1978 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000017494
Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation Architecture GC NK 1510 .P94 1978 c.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.2 Available NULIB000017495

1. Arts and science. energy. results -- 2. Invention and design distinguised -- 3. The six requirements for design -- 4. The geometry of a device -- 5. Techniques. Skill -- 6. Inventions: analogous results -- 7. We can wish for impossibilities. Utility. Improvement. Economy -- 8. The requirements conflict. compromise -- 9. Useless work. Workmanship -- 10. Architecture. inventing the objects -- 11. 'Function' and fiction -- 12. The designer's responsibility -- 13. The aesthetics of design -- 14. Perception and looking -- 15. Taste and style -- 16. Originality -- 17. The common ground between visual art and music. what we really see.

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