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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Architectural Press; 4 edition (14 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0750660775
  • ISBN-13: 978-0750660778
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 18.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 112,776 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Review
'An extremely readable book, due in part to the soundbite-sized chapters'
Architects Journal, 19.01.06

Reviews of previous editions:
'It has a great virtue of being thorough and readable... excellent bibliography.'
Built Environment
'This book makes a valuable, if individualistic contribution to the literature of design theory.'
Science and Technology Press
'The author succeeds in demystifying his subject for the lay reader.'
New Scientist
'The chapters are well written in a readable form and packed full of data undeniably valuable to students.'
ASI Journal
'Its success is well deserved, because it is clearly written, the arguments are logically presented, and the design process is indeed demystified.'
Architectural Science Review

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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 better. The creative mind continues to have the power to surprise and this book aims to nurture and extend this creativity. Neither the earlier editions, nor this book, are intended as authoritative prescriptions of how designers should think but provide helpful advice on how to develop an understanding of design.

In this fourth edition, Bryan Lawson continues to try and understand how designers think, to explore how they might be better educated and to develop techniques to assist them in their task. Some chapters have been revised and three completely new chapters added. The book is now intended to be read in conjunction with What Designers Know which is a companion volume. Some of the ideas previously discussed in the third edition of How Designers Think are now explored more thoroughly in What Designers Know. For the first time this fourth edition works towards a model of designing and the skills that collectively constitute the design process.

* A unique look at the psychology of the designer that provides a greater insight to the process of design
* 'Demystifies' the complexity of the subject and uncovers new ways that design can be done
* Conclusions are drawn from years of research and provide the very latest debate on the subject

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5.0 out of 5 stars It does what it says on the cover, 26 Feb 2002
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This is simply the best book about the design process that is currently available. It is written from the point of view of an architect and for architects, but almost everything it contains is relevant to all other designers - yes, even graphic designers can learn from this book!
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8 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Doesn't really relate to graphic design, 28 Jan 2002
By Peter Leyden (Malmo, Sweden) - See all my reviews
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While Lawson's ideas are quite interesting, as a graphic designer and design educator, I find the gist of his book more related to architecture and to a lesser degree industrial design. The title is a bit of a misnomer as it sounds as if Design and solving design problems is the main theme. It should be renamed "Problem Solving for Architects".
So far I have very little insight into the visual design process.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Proffessor!!, 22 Oct 2007
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I don't know about the book rates compared to others but ive got THE Bryan Lawson as my architectural theory lectures teacher and he' great so I can only imagine how good this book is!!
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