Robert E. Kennedy Library

Title

Review of John A. Walker "Design History and the History of Design" and Peter Dormer "The Meanings of Modern Design"

Author Info

Bruno Giberti, University of California - BerkeleyFollow

Recommended Citation

Published in Design Book Review, Volume 22, January 1, 1991, pages 53-57.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Bruno Giberti was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

Abstract

The history of design is not a new subject. It has been the theme of two well-known if not always well-loved pillars of the historical literature, Nikolaus Pevsner's Pioneers of the Modern Movement (1936) and Sigfried Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command (1948). In contrast, design history is a relatively new discipline, well established in Britain but still forming in this country. The time is right, then, for a book like Design History and the History of Design, in which John A. Walker surveys the landscape of this field for its students.

Disciplines

Architecture