The Nature and Aesthetic of Design + The Nature and Art of Workmanship David Pye
These two books can be read in either order, but they are a two volume set, so you ought to read both of them. There is nothing difficult about the language, but the ideas take a lot of thinking to absorb. It is about how we design and make anything -- the co…
The Nature and Aesthetic of Design + The Nature and Art of Workmanship David Pye
These two books can be read in either order, but they are a two volume set, so you ought to read both of them. There is nothing difficult about the language, but the ideas take a lot of thinking to absorb. It is about how we design and make anything -- the concepts work for software design as well as for the woodworking and architecture examples that the book relies on. David Pye was Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London and the maker of some of the most beautiful wooden boxes I have ever seen which still come up for sale on auctions in the UK from time to time.
The Nature and Aesthetic of Design + The Nature and Art of Workmanship David Pye
These two books can be read in either order, but they are a two volume set, so you ought to read both of them. There is nothing difficult about the language, but the ideas take a lot of thinking to absorb. It is about how we design and make anything -- the concepts work for software design as well as for the woodworking and architecture examples that the book relies on. David Pye was Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London and the maker of some of the most beautiful wooden boxes I have ever seen which still come up for sale on auctions in the UK from time to time.