Rowe, Peter G.,

Design thinking / Peter G. Rowe. - 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index.

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 -- Procedural Aspects of Design Thinking -- Some General Characteristics of Design Problems -- Early Theoretical Positions -- Staged-Process Models of Problem Solving in Design -- 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 -- Normative Positions That Guide Design Thinking -- Normative Positions -- Surface Features and Broad Inclinations -- Further Differentiating Features -- Problems of Substantiation -- Theory and Practice -- 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 -- Notes. 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Architectural design--Decision making--Case studies
Architecture, Modern--Decision making--20th century--Case studies.

NA2750. / R68 1987

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