Design History and the History of Design

Author/Contributor(s):	Walker, John A.
Publisher:	Pluto Press
Date:	10/20/1990
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.

Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture.