Design as Aesthetic Communication: Structuring Random-Order; Deconstruction of Formal Rationality: 9 (American University Studies, Series 20: Fine Arts) - Hardcover

Minai, Asghar Talaye

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820408158 ISBN 13: 9780820408156

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1989

Synopsis

The book presents a theory of design as aesthetic communication which tends to bring design and specifically architecture in phase with contemporary views of the universe, society, and culture expressed by modern physics, biology, information theory, cybernetics, and current technology. It stresses the concept that within the seeming randomness of the twentieth century life there is an «order» that is more meaningful than the order imposed by formal rationality. It puts forward an alternative model for the traditional view which supposes that aesthetic judgement and design processes are linear progressions. Design is viewed here as the process resulting from attempts in communicating symbolic information.

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ASGHAR TALAYE MINAI is Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Howard University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820408158
• ISBN 13: 9780820408156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 458