Thinking Design Through Literature

by Susan Yelavich

This book deploys literature to explore the social lives of objects and places. The first book of its kind, it embraces things as diverse as escalators, coins, skyscrapers, pottery, radios, and robots, and encompasses places as various as home, country, cities, streets, and parks. Here, fiction, poetry, and literary non-fiction are mined for stories of design, which are paired with images of contemporary architecture and design. Through the work...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367784297
• ISBN13: 9780367784294
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages