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The tools of design research, writes Brenda Laurel, will allow designers "to claim and direct the power of their profession." Often neglected in the various curricula of design schools, the new models of design research described in this book help designers to investigate people, form, and process in ways that can make their work more potent and more delightful. "At the very least, " Peter Lunenfeld writes in the preface, "design research save...

A critical primer on artist Richard Serra's work.

A delightful, at times haunting, album of robots and their makers offers interviews with the makers and photographers of both. In this field guide to our mechanical future, the authors question if humans and robots might someday meld into a single species--Robo Sapiens. Full color.

Enhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtually undetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photographs. Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and u...

Leading philosophers, ethicists, scientists, and religious scholars provide a foundation for thinking about the new and controversial field of human embryonic stem cell research.

Chosen to represent the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, Bill Viola, a New York artist living on the West Coast, is recognized internationally for his work in video and sound installations. This book brings together a selection of essays, notebook entries, drawings, and descriptions of projects that map Viola's personal course through the readings, observations, experiments, and associations that form the groundwork for his art. Each...

What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual and do people care? These are the twins themes of this volume, which is a scientific and social analysis of research in the field of sexual orientation.

Previously uncollected essays of an architect whose love of people, buildings, and nature was reflected in the places he built.

This volume, which originally appeared as a special issue of TDR/The Drama Review, looks at puppets, masks, and other performing objects from a broad range of perspectives.

An objective and detailed look at the American defense budget and military strategy.

Contending perspectives on the future of US grand strategy.

Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.

Founded in the early 1950s, PERSPECTA, the Yale Architectural Journal, is the oldest and most distinguished of the student-edited American architectural journals that have appeared in recent decades. This edition examines the legacy of the academic and professional confrontations of the 1960s. 130 illustrations.

A comprehensive introduction to colorimetry from a conceptual perspective.

A cult novel, with a critical introduction, by the German expressionist visionary Paul Scheerbart.

The compelling story of the politics, policies, and personalities that made Times Square's revitalization possible.

In this new work, the conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science--the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same.

Elder begins by defending realism about essentialness (arguing that nature's objects have essential properties whose status as essential is mind-independent). He then defends this view of familiar objects against causal exclusion arguments and worries about vagueness. Finally, he argues that many of the objects in which common sense believes really exist, including artifacts and biological devices shaped by natural selection, and that we too e...

The best selections from America's oldest and most respectedstudent-edited architectural journal, accompanied by historical and critical commentary.

In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, Rosalind Krauss explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde.