Objects of Desire looks at the appearance of consumer goods in the 200 years since the introduction of mechanized production, whether in Josiah Wedgewood's use of neo-classicism for his industrially m
Volume 9 in the Babbage Reprint Series makes the Moore School Lectures (1946) available for the first time. Delivered by such notable engineers and scientists as J.P. Eckert, J. Mauchly, H. Goldstine,
Victor Papanek's classic study offers a blueprint for survival in the energy and resource deficient world of today, suggesting strategies for developing products that respond to human needs.
Newspapers (E. Taylor, et al.). Magazines (M. Vignelli, et al.). Books (J. Tschichold, et al.). Technical Appendix. Glossary of Computer Terminology. Acknowledgments. Bibliography. Index.
Galen Cranz surveys the rise of the park system from 1850 to the present through 4 stages - the pleasure ground, the reform park, the recreation facility and the open space system.
This fully-illustrated investigation of the polygon as the basic building block of nature proposes that when it is adapted to environmental structure this form will result in configurations that are n
THE SENSE OF BEAUTY: A FIRST APPROXIMATION It is generally acknowledged that during the first half of the eighteenth century a profound change was wrought in the theory of art and natural beauty. To t
