The Nature and Art of Workmanship

by David Pye, Ezra Shales (Editor)

Overview

Until he died in 1993, Pye was an internationally known architect, industrial designer, instructor, and craftsman. This book explores the meaning of hand skill in a thoroughly mechanized age.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350004528
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/15/2025
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David Pye was an internationally known architect, industrial designer, and craftsman. For many years he was professor for furniture design at the Royal College of Art, London. He is also the author of The Nature & Aesthetics of Design. He died in 1993.

Table of Contents

Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Design proposes, workmanship disposes; 2. The workmanship of risk and the workmanship of certainty; 3. Is anything done by hand?; 4. Quality in workmanship; 5. The designer's power to communicate his intentions; 6. The natural order reflected in the work of man; 7. Diversity; 8. Durability; 9. Equivocality; 10. Critique of 'On the nature of Gothic'; 11. The aesthetic importance of workmanship, and its future; 12. Commentary on the plates; Index.