The Nature and Art of Workmanship

David Pye, Mike Nevelson

Leonardo · 1973 · 309 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

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.