How Designers Think : The Design Process Demystified

Bryan Lawson

ISBN 10: 0408500727 / ISBN 13: 9780408500722

Published by Butterworth Architecture, London, 1990

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Butterworth, Lomdon, 1990. Soft cover. Book Condition : Near fine, like new, appears unread. A very fine copy. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #S013696.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Designers Think : The Design Process Demystified
• Publisher: Butterworth Architecture, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0408500727
• ISBN 13: 9780408500722
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: N/A
• Edition: 1990 Second Ed
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: N/A

About this title

Synopsis

How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design.In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively constitute the design process.

Review

Reviews of previous editions:
'It has a great virtue of being thorough and readable ... excellent bibliography.'
Built Environment.
'This book makes a valuable, if individualistic contribution to the literature of design theory.'
Science and Technology Press.
'I like the book because it is the sort of book I would not enjoy writing.'
Edward de Bono
'The author succeeds in demystifying his subject for the lay reader.'
New Scientist.

'The chapters are well written in a readable form and packed full of data undeniably valuable to students.'
ASI Journal

Reviews of this edition

"Its success is well deserved, because it is clearly written, the arguments are logically presented, and the design process is indeed demystified."
Architectural Science Review