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The Design History Reader
Grace Lees-Maffei-Rebecca Houze
This revised and updated edition addresses the international history and practice of design from the 17th century to the present day. Covering both primary texts by social theorists, designers and design reformers, and secondary texts in the form of key works of design history and design thinking, the Reader provides an essential resource for understanding the history of design, the development of the discipline, and contemporary issues in design history and practice, including decolonization, sustainability, historiography, gender and globalization. Extracts are grouped into thematic sections, each with a contextualizing introduction by the editors, and a guide to further reading.
The updated edition of The Design History Reader expands upon its original content and features numerous famed scholarly voices from across the globe. Authors include those such as Glenn Adamson, Victor Margolin, Clive Dilnot, Susan S. Bean, Karl Marx, Roland Barthes and many more.
592 pages, 49 bw illus
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 9, 2025 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350133495 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 520 |
| Dimensions | 246 × 190 × 30 mm · 1.43 kg |
| Editor | Houze, Rebecca (Nothern Illinois University, USA) |
| Editor | Lees-Maffei, Grace (Professor of Design History, University of Hertfordshire, UK) |
