Design Books

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1. Fiction, Image, Tone: The Metropolis and the Realisation of Architecture

   By Raymond Quek

   Offering students a unique opportunity to understand architecture’s place in arts and indeed how architecture could strive to offer the ultimate synthesis of the arts, this book makes essential reading for any individual studying the theory, philosophy or history of architecture....

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-49293-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. The Graphic Communication Handbook

   By Simon Downs

   The Graphic Communication Handbook is a comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theories and practices of the graphics industry. It traces the history and development of graphic design, explores issues which affect the industry, examines its analysis through ...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-55738-2 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design

   By xtine burrough

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88222-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. The Architecture of Information

   By Martyn Dade-Robertson

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56184-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Global Design History

   Edited by Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello, Sarah Teasley

   Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as ‘networks’ or ‘flows’ and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our sense of this key term in history and theory. Individual chapters focus our attention on...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-57287-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

6. Lycra: How A Fiber Shaped America

   By KAORI O'CONNOR

   Lycra describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-80437-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Decoding Theoryspeak: An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory

   By Enn Ots

   Existentialism; Urbanism; Aporia; Deontic; Tabula Rasa; Hyperspace; Heterotopia; Metareality; Structuralism… Navigating the way through the barrage of unique terminology used in architectural theory can seem like a daunting task, particularly to new architectural students. Decoding Theoryspeak...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-77830-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Design Research: Synergies from Interdisciplinary Perspectives

   Edited by Jesper Simonsen, Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Monika Büscher, John Damm Scheuer

   Design Research is a new interdisciplinary research area with a social science orientation at its heart, and this book explores how scientific knowledge can be put into practice in ways that are at once ethical, creative, helpful, and extraordinary in their results. In order to clarify the common...

   July 2010 | 978-0-415-57263-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography

   By Jane Collins, Andrew Nisbet

   Theatre and Performance Design: A Reader in Scenography is an essential resource for those interested in the visual composition of performance and related scenographic practices. Theatre and performance studies, cultural theory, fine art, philosophy and the social sciences are brought...

   March 2010 | 978-0-415-43210-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design

    By Kathryn Moore

    Making tangible connections between theory and practice, ideas and form, this book encourages debate about the artistic, conceptual, and cultural significance of the way things look. What are the metaphysical concepts at the heart of design education, theory, and philosophy? Why do we assume that...

    November 2009 | 978-0-415-30870-0 | Paperback (Routledge)