Design thinking
The author provides a systematic account of the process of designing in architecture and urban planning. He examines multiple and often dissimilar theoretical positions - whether they prescribe forms or simply provide procedures for solving problems - as particular manifestations of an underlying structure of inquiry common to all designing. Over 100 illustrations and a number of detailed observations of designers in action support the author's thesis
Case studies
229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780262181228, 9780262680677, 0262181223, 026268067X
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1. Designers in action
Case study 1: making an urban place
Case study 2: making a building from a formal type
Case study 3: reconciling two large ideas
Other accounts
Observations and questions about the protocols
2. Procedural aspects of design thinking
Some general characteristics of design problems
Early theoretical positions
Staged-process models of problem solving
The information processing theory of problem solving
Heuristic reasoning and design "situations"
Types of rules and constraints at work in design
Aspects of design behavior
Limitations of a procedural view
3. Normative positions that guide design thinking
Normative positions
Surface features and broad inclinations
Further differentiating features
Problems of substantiation
Theory and practice
4. Architectural positions and their realms of inquiry
Two realms of inquiry
Architecture from a naturalistic interpretation of man and his world
Architecture from a referential interpretation
A convergence of issues