What's Wrong with Plastic Trees?: Artifice and Authenticity in Design by Stroustrup, Bjarne

Praeger. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 027596776X . 0.87 x 8.58 x 5.83 Inches; 184 pages. .

Praeger Publishers, 2000. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:027596776X

New. Krieger revisits the ideas of his now infamous article of some thirty years ago in Science magazine. His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within; between perfection and contingency, between wholes and parts, between the talk we make about the world and the world itself. Krieger takes design-in architecture, landscape, interiors, engineering, and in systems and computer science-to be modeled by traditional theological and artistic problems. And here, he claims, design has traditionally been a redesign of nature. For nature is, as Durkheim would describe it, a totem. Our collective ritual devotion to it allows us to enliven or animate it, and so it may animate us as well. Curiously, much of design and discourse about it now takes place in the computer software engineering world, especially among those concerned with… Read More

Hardback. New. His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within;

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Praeger, 2000-04-30. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Praeger Pub Text, 2000. Hardcover. New. 184 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches.