Design History and the History of Design Book

'The most systematic, the most comprehensive and the most comprehensible account of what design history would like to be ...I would not hesitate to recommend it' Designer's Jnl 'The scope of the book is admirable' THES 'The best introduction to the critical study of design that I have encountered' Building Design An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design. Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture.Read More