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Design Is: Words, Things, People, Buildings, and Places at Metropolis

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Like the magazine, Metropolis, that spawned it, Design Is...celebrates design in all its guises. This anthology of groundbreaking articles presents an ongoing conversation about design and design culture in the generous and lucid manner we have come to expect from this world-famous publication. Over seventy contributors-including virtually every important design writer of the last twenty years, like Paul Goldberger, Luc Sante, Philippe Starck, Phillip Lopate, Julius Shulman, Michael Sorkin, and Paola Antonelli-reveal how design has permeated all aspects of our lives and how it will continue to shape the places we live and work and the objects we buy and use in the future.Design Is...is an easy and enjoyable introduction to the designed world around us, and a knowing, rollicking reader for those who are passionate about design.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Release: December 01, 2001

ISBN: 156898314X

ISBN 13: 9781568983141

Design Is: Words, Things, People, Buildings, and Places at Metropolis

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Like the magazine, Metropolis, that spawned it, Design Is...celebrates design in all its guises. This anthology of groundbreaking articles presents an ongoing conversation about design and design culture in the generous and lucid manner we have come to expect from this world-famous publication. Over seventy contributors-including virtually every important design writer of the last twenty years, like Paul Goldberger, Luc Sante, Philippe Starck, Phillip Lopate, Julius Shulman, Michael Sorkin, and Paola Antonelli-reveal how design has permeated all aspects of our lives and how it will continue to shape the places we live and work and the objects we buy and use in the future.Design Is...is an easy and enjoyable introduction to the designed world around us, and a knowing, rollicking reader for those who are passionate about design.

Language: English

Pages: 288

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Release: December 01, 2001

ISBN: 156898314X

ISBN 13: 9781568983141

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