Design

The Key Concepts

By Catherine McDermott

This is the essential student’s guide to Design – its practice, its theory and its history. Drawing from a wide range of international examples, respected design writer...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

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Design Management

Exploring Fieldwork and Applications

Edited by Robert Jerrard, David Hands

Quantifying and assessing the value of an organization’s design department can be problematic. The tools traditionally used by auditors are usually insufficient to ‘measure’ either...

Published September 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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Rethinking Technology

A Reader in Architectural Theory

Edited by William W. Braham, Jonathan Hale

This essential reference for all students of architecture, design and the built environment provides a convenient single source for all the key texts in the...

Published December 13th 2006 by Routledge.

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Japanese Modernisation and Mingei Theory

Cultural Nationalism and Oriental Orientalism

By Yuko Kikuchi

Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei...

Published April 6th 2006 by Routledge.

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Crossing Design Boundaries

Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference, 15-16 September 2005, Edinburgh, UK

Edited by Paul Rodgers, Libby Brodhurst, Duncan Hepburn

This book presents over 100 papers from the 3^rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in...

Published November 10th 2005 by Taylor and Francis.

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Urban Avant-Gardes

Art, Architecture and Change

By Malcolm Miles

Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of...

Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge.

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The City Cultures Reader

Edited by Iain Borden, Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles

City Cultures Reader is an outstanding collection of 60 texts, focussing on the cultural aspects, frameworks and perceptions of cities. Organised into twelve sections this...

Published October 16th 2003 by Routledge.

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The City Reader

Edited by Richard T. Legates, Frederic Stout

The second edition of The City Reader brings together the very best writing on the city. Fifty-five generous selections are included: thirty from the first...

Published August 14th 2003 by Routledge.

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Urban Futures

Critical Commentaries on shaping Cities

Edited by Tim Hall, Malcolm Miles

Urban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and society. The book concerns cities...

Published December 5th 2002 by Routledge.

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Design Management Case Studies

By David Hands, Jack Ingram, Robert Jerrard

Design Management Case Studies provides an unusual and timely contribution to knowledge of the management of product and service innovation.
The six case studies described are...

Published April 11th 2002 by Routledge.

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