Thursday, June 29, 2006

Design After Modernism (book)

After reading a couple of references to John Thakara's 'Design After Modernism' I ordered a used copy which arrived yesterday. I'm really glad I did because it looks like it covers a lot of the precedents for the work I am doing in my research. I really found a lot of value in Thackara's latest 'In the Bubble'. I think 'Design After Modernism' might be out of print because I could only find used copies online. I also could not find a table of contents for it. So in the interests of public service:

CONTENTS
Preface.
INTRODUCTION
1 . Beyond the object in design.
JOHN THACKARA
2 . The experience of modernity.
MARSHALL BERMAN
CITY - BUILDING - STREET
3 . Place-form and cultural identity.
KENNETH FRAMPTON
4 . A city is not a tree.
CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER
5 . Architecture and cognac.
RICHARD BOLTON
6 . Street signs.
NIGEL COATES
PRODUCT - ORNAMENT - CRAFT
7 . The search for a postmodern aesthetic.
PETER FULLER
8 . The ideal world of Vermeer's little lace maker .
PETER DORMER
9 . Design and 'avantpostmodernism'.
FRANCOIS BURKHARDT
10 . Invisible design .
CLAUDIA DONA
11 . Culture as commodity: style wars, punk and pageant.
PETER YORK
TECHNOLOGY - SOFTWARE - PROCESS
12 . The system of objects.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
13 . From Socrates to Intel: the chaos of microaesthetics.
THIERRY CHAPUT
14 . The demise of classical rationality.
PHILIPPE LEMOINE
15 . From Brunelleschi to CAD-CAM.
MIKE COOLEY
16 . The product as illusion.
TOM MITCHELL
17 . Softecnica.
JOHN CHRIS JONES

THACKARA, J., 1988. Design after Modernism. London: Thames & Hudson.

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