Informing Design
By (Author) Joan I. Dickinson
By (author) John P. Marsden
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Fairchild Books
1st September 2010
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Architecture: professional practice
729
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Informing Design suggests a pedagogy in which design decision making is informed by more than speculative hunches, preferences, and intuition. In this collection of contributed chapters, leaders in both design practice and education share their expertise in such specialty areas as corporate, retail, and learning environments; healthcare; and hospitality. Introductory chapters teach students to distinguish among information gathering, programming, and research; apply the findings of others; and conduct their own investigations. Other chapters illustrate how informed design decisions were applied to various building types.
Joan I. Dickinson is based at Radford College, US. John P. Marsden is based at Mount Mercy College, US.