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Design and truthRobert Grudin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300162035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • NK1505 .D475 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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 -- part 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.
Summary: Robert Grudin explores the role of design in our daily lives, focusing especially on how political and economic powers impress themselves on us through the built environment.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction NK1505 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn841171275

Includes bibliographies and index.

part 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 -- part 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.

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

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