Cover of Who designs America?

Who designs America?

"The immense problems confronting American design derive not only from 'the mediocrity of taste or corruptions of practice, in the public at large and within the design professions, but [also from] the immense scale and challenging complexity of the opportunities now open to the designer, the difficulty of defining the standards that should govern creative design in an expanding and changing society, and the difficulty of establishing the authority - institutionalizing the observance - of such standards in an industrial and democratic community'."—Back cover.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 357 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Who designs America?? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Who designs America?. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and Other Essays Shares essays, addresses, lectures
  2. Art nouveau architecture Shares addresses, lectures, architecture
  3. What Time is This Place? Shares addresses, lectures, essays
  4. The Future of the past Shares addresses, lectures, architecture

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Art and its objects
  2. Selected Essays
  3. The Secondary Colors: Three Essays
  4. The Primary Colors: Three Essays

“If it was the addresses that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Freedom and development
  2. The English tradition
  3. The causes of the War of 1812
  4. Kenneth Patchen: A Collection Of Essays

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties
  2. The Strategic Designer: Tools Techniques for Managing the Design Process
  3. Design the Life You Love: A Guide to Thinking About Your Life Playfully and with Optimism
  4. Design As Future-Making