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What´s Wrong with Plastic Trees?: Artifice and Authenticity in Design
Martin Krieger
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Description for What´s Wrong with Plastic Trees?: Artifice and Authenticity in Design
Hardback. An examination of how we design nature, architecture, computer programs, theologies and the world. It offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within: between perfection and contingency, between wholes and parts, between the talk we make about the world and the world itself. Num Pages: 184 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AK; AMC; TBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
Krieger revisits the ideas of his now infamous article of some thirty years ago in Science magazine. His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within; between perfection and contingency, between wholes and parts, between the talk we make about the world and the world itself. Krieger takes design—in architecture, landscape, interiors, engineering, and in systems and computer science—to be modeled by traditional theological and artistic problems. And here, he claims, design ... Read more
Krieger revisits the ideas of his now infamous article of some thirty years ago in Science magazine. His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within; between perfection and contingency, between wholes and parts, between the talk we make about the world and the world itself. Krieger takes design—in architecture, landscape, interiors, engineering, and in systems and computer science—to be modeled by traditional theological and artistic problems. And here, he claims, design ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780275967765
SKU
V9780275967765
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About Martin Krieger
MARTIN H. KRIEGER is Professor of Planning at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development of the University of Southern California. He has taught at University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities, MIT, and University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, and he has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science and at the National Humanities ... Read more
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