Download or read book Design History and the History of Design written by John Albert Walker and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design. Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of histories of design and architecture.