Artifice and Design

by Barry Allen

Book Overview

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446821
• ISBN13: 9780801446825
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher