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How designers think

Bryan Lawson

1980216 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1980
first published
  • 1980Architectural Press · 216 pages · ENGISBN 9780898600476
  • 1990Butterworth Architecture · 243 pages · ENGISBN 9780750602686
  • 1990Butterworth Architecture · 243 pages · ENGISBN 9780408500722
  • 1997Architectural Press · 318 pages · ENGISBN 9780750630733
  • 2006Elsevier/Architectural · 321 pages · ENGISBN 9780750660778
  • 2006Taylor & Francis Group · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781136398001
  • 2006Taylor & Francis Group · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781136397981
  • 1983Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd · 224 pagesISBN 9780851398525

The author, a designer and psychologist, shows that the design process involves a variety of different thinking modes. He argues that design skills can be acquired, practised and improved in the same manner as learning a musical instrument.

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