The Nature and Art of Workmanship

David Pye (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2007
Herbert Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7136-8931-0 (ISBN)

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One of the classic books on the theory of craftsmanship and design.

This is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. In it, David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept of good workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity to our visual environment.

David Pye, who died in 1993, was an architect, industrial designer and craftsman. For many years he was also Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Ships and The Nature and Aesthetics of Design.

Foreword: Apostle of workmanship
1. Design proposes.
Workmanship disposes
2. The workmanship of risk, the workmanship of certainty
3. Is anything done by hand?
4. Quality in workmanship
5. The designer's power to communicate his intentions
6. The natural order reflected in the work of a man
7. Diversity
8. Durability
9. Equivocality
10. Critique of 'On the Nature of Gothic'
11. The aesthetic importance of workmanship, and its future
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.7.2007
Zusatzinfo	51 images
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 280 mm
Gewicht	374 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7136-8931-5 / 0713689315
ISBN-13	978-0-7136-8931-0 / 9780713689310
Zustand	Neuware