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1. Design Expertise

   By Bryan Lawson, Kees Dorst

   Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer.It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst develop a new model of design expertise and show how...

   Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge
2. How Designers Think

   4th Edition

   By Bryan Lawson

   How Designers Think is based on Bryan Lawson's many observations of designers at work, interviews with designers and their clients and collaborators. This extended work is the culmination of forty years' research and shows the belief that we all can, and do, design, and that we can learn to design...

   Published October 13th 2005 by Routledge
3. What Designers Know

   By Bryan Lawson

   Each chapter deals with a different technique from which we can best represent and make explicit the forms of knowledge used by designers. The book explores whether design knowledge is special, and attempts to get to the root of where design knowledge comes from. Crucially, it focuses on how...

   Published April 7th 2004 by Routledge
4. Language of Space

   By Bryan Lawson

   This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space. Bryan Lawson provides an ideal introduction to the topic, breaking down the complex and abstract terms used by many design theoreticians when writing about architectural space. Instead, our everyday knowledge is...

   Published October 22nd 2001 by Routledge