Main entry:

Burckhardt, Lucius, author.

Title & Author:

Design is invisible : planning, education, and society / Lucius Burckhardt ; Silvan Blumenthal and Martin Schmitz (eds.) ; translation from German to English: Jill Denton.

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2017.
©2017

Description:

332 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-327) and index.
Design is invisible -- Invisible design -- Criteria for a new design -- On the design of everyday life -- Design-rite and expression of a hopeful society -- Design implies processes, not just forms -- The grammar of reality -- Urban design and its significance for residents -- Heritage preservation is social policy -- The shortsighted and the farsighted -- Quality ... -- On the production of counter-productivity -- There's nothing simple about simplicity -- All over the place -- An ecological innovation -- Good taste -- can a shift in tastes be planned -- Beyond utility value -- Dirt -- Fake the real thing -- Color is a sign -- Bad form -- University planning and urban planning -- To expect quick results from the planned reform is to understimate the braking forces -- The minimal intervention -- 75 years of Bauhaus -- on the tame approach to the wicked problem -- Not a new Bauhaus.
Translated to English from the original German.

Summary:

"Compiled here are texts on design, society, and education by Lucius Burckhardt from the period 1960-1999"--Back cover.

ISBN:

9783035612011 (English edition ; paperback)
3035612013 (English edition ; paperback)
(ePub ; online)
9783035610505
(print + online)
9783035610727

Subject:

Design.
Design Social aspects.
Industrial design.
Industrial design Social aspects.
Design Aspect social.
industrial design.
design (discipline)

Added entries:

Blumenthal, Silvan, 1980- editor.
Schmitz, Martin, 1956- editor.
Denton, Jill, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295152
Call No.: BIB 241221
Status: Available