Shape: Talking about Seeing and Doing (Hardcover)
暫譯: 形狀:談論看見與行動 (精裝版)

George Stiny

  • 出版商: MIT
  • 出版日期: 2006-04-07
  • 售價: $1,240
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 432
  • 裝訂: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 0262195313
  • ISBN-13: 9780262195317
  • 相關分類: Design Pattern
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In Shape, George Stiny argues that seeing shapes -- with all their changeability and ambiguity -- is an inexhaustible source of creative ideas. Understanding shapes, he says, is a useful way to understand what is possible in design.

Shapes are devices for visual expression just as symbols are devices for verbal expression. Stiny develops a unified scheme that includes both visual expression with shapes and verbal expression with signs. The relationships -- and equivalencies -- between the two kinds of expressive devices make design comparable to other professional practices that rely more on verbal than visual expression. Design uses shapes while business, engineering, law, mathematics, and philosophy turn mainly to symbols, but the difference, says Stiny, isn't categorical. Designing is a way of thinking. Designing, Stiny argues, is calculating with shapes, calculating without equations and numbers but still according to rules. Stiny shows that the mechanical process of calculation is actually a creative process when you calculate with shapes -- when you can reason with your eyes, when you learn to see instead of count.

The book takes the idea of design as calculation from mere heuristic or metaphor to a rigorous relationship in which design and calculation each inform and enhance the other. Stiny first demonstrates how seeing and counting differ when you use rules -- that is, what it means to calculate with your eyes -- then shows how to calculate with shapes, providing formal details. He gives practical applications in design with specific visual examples. The book is extraordinarily visual, with many drawings throughout -- drawings punctuated with words. You have to see this book in order to read it.

George Stiny is Professor of Design and Computation at MIT.

 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
 
 Introduction: Tell Me All about It 1
 
I What Makes It Visual? 61
 
II Seeing How It Works 159
 
III Using It to Design 311
 
 Notes 391
 
 Index 409
 

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**描述**

在《Shape》中,George Stiny 主張,觀察形狀——其變化性和模糊性——是創意的無窮來源。他表示,理解形狀是一種有用的方式來理解設計中可能的事物。

形狀是視覺表達的工具,就像符號是語言表達的工具。Stiny 發展出一個統一的方案,包含了形狀的視覺表達和符號的語言表達。這兩種表達工具之間的關係和等價性使得設計可以與其他更依賴語言而非視覺表達的專業實踐相提並論。設計使用形狀,而商業、工程、法律、數學和哲學則主要依賴符號,但 Stiny 說,這種差異並不是類別上的。設計是一種思考方式。Stiny 主張,設計是用形狀進行計算,這種計算不依賴方程式和數字,但仍然遵循規則。Stiny 顯示,當你用形狀進行計算時,這種機械計算過程實際上是一種創造性過程——當你能用眼睛推理,當你學會看而不是數數。

本書將設計作為計算的概念從單純的啟發式或隱喻提升到一種嚴謹的關係,其中設計和計算彼此相互影響和增強。Stiny 首先展示了在使用規則時,觀察和計數的不同——也就是說,如何用眼睛進行計算的意義,然後展示如何用形狀進行計算,提供正式的細節。他在設計中給出了具體的視覺範例的實際應用。本書極具視覺性,貫穿著許多插圖——這些插圖中穿插著文字。你必須親自看到這本書才能閱讀它。

George Stiny 是麻省理工學院設計與計算的教授。

**目錄**

致謝 ix

引言:告訴我所有的事 1

I 什麼使它具視覺性? 61

II 觀察它如何運作 159

III 使用它來設計 311

註釋 391

索引 409

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