Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience

by C. Thomas Mitchell

Book Overview

Redefining Designing From Form to Experience C. Thomas Mitchell Redefining Designing: From Form to Experience offers a comprehensive new theory of design in which user needs and wishes are central. This landmark work focuses on design in terms of human experience rather than physical form. The book offers a highly critical study of design philosophies that have emerged since industrialization: modernism, late modernism, postmodernism, and deconstruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442009879
• ISBN13: 9780442009878
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Is an architecture book for no architecture people

This book offers a critic evaluation of practices and philosophies about architecture. The author say that buildings doesn't get the planned objetives because of designing itself. The book presents a new way of doing architecture and presents an historical view of architecture like a social and cultural process.