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Designing for Designers
Designing for Designers
by
Jack L. Nasar, Wolfgang F. E. Preiser, Thomas Fisher
List Price: $57.00
©2008, 256 pp.,
6 x 9, softcover
(978-1-56367-459-4)
Book Category: Special Topics
In Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture, authors Jack L.
Nasar, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser, and Thomas Fisher examine the designs of 17 architecture
and design schools. They answer questions such as: How has architectural education
evolved and what is its future? Are architectural schools built with discernable
types of designs and what are their effects on those who experience them? What lessons
can be learned from evaluations of recently completed school buildings and what
guidance do they provide for the design of future ones? At the heart of this text lies
the proposition that we should design as if people matter and Designing for Designers
will make readers more aware of problems in architectural interiors and suggest ways
to make interiors work better for the building occupants.
- CONTENTS
Part I: Transforming Architectural Education
Part II: Assessing Architecture School Designs
Part III: Evaluation Case Studies (United States)
Part IV: Evaluation Case Studies (International)
- FEATURES
• Brings a unique perspective to this important building type
• Applies a user-based and scientific approach to evaluate the interior design of fifteen schools of architecture
• Many of the findings for these interiors extend to all kinds of spaces on campus and elsewhere
• Offers guidelines for designs of the future
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