Design and truth /
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New Haven [Conn.] :
Yale University Press,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Homage to Rikyu : design, truth, and power. Sen no Rikyu and the paradox of innovation
- Good design tells the truth
- What design and truth say about each other
- Design as tragedy : the rise and fall of the Twin Towers
- Edsel's law : how bad design happens
- Designs of darkness
- Face to face with design
- Pt. 2. Homage to Vasari : design, knowledge, and energy. Giorgio Vasari and the permutations of design
- The lady in the picture : design and revelation in Renaissance art
- In Jefferson's footsteps : modes of self-design
- Jefferson's gravestone : metaphorical extensions of design
- Liberty as a knowledge design
- Corporate redesign and the business of knowledge
- Designing time
- The design of private knowledge
- Epilogue. Designing truth.