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The Nature and Art of Workmanship David Pye

The Nature and Art of Workmanship By David Pye

The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye


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Summary

One of the classic books on the theory of craftsmanship and design.

The Nature and Art of Workmanship Summary

The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye

This is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. In it, David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept of good workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity to our visual environment.

About David Pye

David Pye, who died in 1993, was an architect, industrial designer and craftsman. For many years he was also Professor of Furniture Design at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of Ships and The Nature and Aesthetics of Design.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Apostle of workmanship 1. Design proposes. Workmanship disposes 2. The workmanship of risk, the workmanship of certainty 3. Is anything done by hand? 4. Quality in workmanship 5. The designer's power to communicate his intentions 6. The natural order reflected in the work of a man 7. Diversity 8. Durability 9. Equivocality 10. Critique of 'On the Nature of Gothic' 11. The aesthetic importance of workmanship, and its future Index

Additional information

NLS9780713689310
9780713689310
0713689315
The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20070703
144
N/A
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