Dear Guy,
I found your discussion of Pevsner interesting. I think there is
something in 'Pioneers' that won't go away.
Your conclusion, though, doesn't feel satisfying to me. I agree that
reading anything and everything critically can play an important role in
the kind of education we perhaps seek for designers. But this doesn't
speak to the issue of how we build a community that is more than a
bundle of spears--individuals held together by little more than a name.
Maybe your idea of 'critical reading' helps--we are joined by our shared
arts and disciplines of critical thinking? I do, indeed, attempt to
teach such arts and disciplines. And I have my own set of recommended
readings--and the set varies by the needs and interests of the
individual students with whom I work.
Once again, then, we are at this point:
1) some small collection of readings that inspire us to think more
about design.
2) some branchings--along the lines that Klaus or Victor propose, in
their slightly different ways.
I leave aside all of the broader reading that any person (citizen) must
have, and I leave aside the books of the moment that come and go for
each of us.
The discussion goes on.
Dick
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