Understanding Design
Title Understanding Design
Author Kees Dorst
ISBN 978-1-58423-265-0
Review
Required to purchase this for an adjunct in 2010, I read this in the summer of 2011 while on and off of planes, and that is just the type of situation that this book was created for. Single page explanations of tremendous abstracts, such as 'The limits of planning' and 'absolute beginners', Kees Dorst breaks up this text into several hierarchical sections on general design.
Not a book that will immediately tell you how you should progress in specific situations, but a book that will give you a general guide about how to approach design in a multitude of situations. Extremely informative, and I would say a must-have, if you are a novice designer of any of the allied designed fields. And it doesn't take long to get your money's worth from it.