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The Design Process Demystified
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Fourth Edition
By
Bryan Lawson, Dean of the Faculty of Architectural Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. Author of How Designers Think, Language of Space and What Designers Know.
Description
How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and
collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and
that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend
this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think
but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design.
In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand
how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters
have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know
which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more
thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively
constitute the design process.
Audience
Students of architecture and design; Academics in the same fields; Students of psychology.
Contents
Part 1 - What is Design; Introduction; The changing role of the designer; Route maps of the design process; Part 2 - Problems and Solutions:
The components of design problems; Measurement, criteria and judgement in design; A model of design problems; Problems, solutions and
the design process; Part 3 - Design Thinking; Types and styles of thinking; Creative thinking; Guiding principles; Design strategies;
Design tactics; Design traps; Design as conversation and perception; Towards a model of designing
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 320 pages, publication date: OCT-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6077-8
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6077-5
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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