Alla 3 böcker i bra beg skick.

BOK 1:

BAUHAUS

1919-1933: Reform and Avant-garde

Av Magdalena Droste. 2006. Häftat omslag.

Edited by Peter Gessel

"In a fleeting fourteen year period, sandwiched between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus school of art and design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideals for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusion of fine art, craftsmanship, and technology to be applied across painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre, and installation.

As much an intense personal community as a publicly minded collective, the Bauhaus was first founded by Walter Gropius (1883–1969), and counted Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among its members. Between its three successive locations in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, the school fostered charismatic and creative exchange between teachers and students, all varied in their artistic styles and preferences, but united in their idealism and their interest in a “total” work of art across different practices and media.

This book celebrates the adventurous innovation of the Bauhaus movement, both as a trailblazer in the development of modernism, and as a paradigm of art education, where an all-encompassing freedom of creative expression and cutting-edge ideas led to functional and beautiful creations".

Bok 2:

THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY THINGS.

Av Donald A Norman. 2001. Häftat omslag.

Häftad. Någon har egenhändigt plastat omslaget. Plasten är något sliten, med hål, på några ställen nedtill, framtill och baktill. Plasten är satt med 3 tejpbitar på insidan av pärmarna. Tejp blir ju alltid lite solkig runt kanterna så se bild 3. Ser ungefär likadant ut på insidan av båda pärmarna.

"Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault, argues this ingenious,even liberating,book, lies not in ourselves, but in product design that ignores the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. The problems range from ambiguous and hidden controls to arbitrary relationships between controls and functions, coupled with a lack of feedback or other assistance and unreasonable demands on memorization. The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time.In this entertaining and insightful analysis, cognitive scientist Don Norman hails excellence of design as the most important key to regaining the competitive edge in influencing consumer behaviour. Now fully expanded and updated, with a new introduction by the author, The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how,and why,some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them".

Bok 3:

RECYCLED SPACES - CONVERTING OLD BUILDINGS INTO NEW HOMES.

Vinny Lee / Ray Main

Inbunden bok. Ryland Peters & Small. 2000.

"A beautifully illustrated handbook explains how to transform old building into vital, new homes, exploring a rnage of projeccts that have renovated former ecclesiastical, industrial, agricultural, municipal, and commercial sites into striking apartments and houses".