Main entry:

Design in America Conference, Princeton University, 1964.

Title & Author:

Who designs America? The American Civilization Conference at Princeton, edited for the American Civilization Program by Laurence B. Holland. Papers by Susanne K. Langer [and others].

Publication:

Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Books [1966]

Description:

357 pages illustrations, plans 18 cm.

Series:

Princeton studies in American civilization, no. 6

Notes:
Sponsored by the Program in American Civilization at Princeton University.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Laurence B. Holland -- The social influence of design / Susanne K. Langer -- The politics of design / John William Ward -- Scale and design in a new environment / Boris Pushkarev -- Quality in city design / Kevin Lynch -- New forms of community / Victor Gruen -- Naked utility and visual chorea / Charles Colbert -- The impact of political and social forces on design in America / Edward J. Logue -- The artifact as a cultural cipher / Richard S. Latham -- Some psychiatric aspects of design / Humphry Osmond -- Summary of the proceedings / Eric Larrabee.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"The immense problems confronting American design derive not only from 'the mediocrity of taste or corruptions of practice, in the public at large and within the design professions, but [also from] the immense scale and challenging complexity of the opportunities now open to the designer, the difficulty of defining the standards that should govern creative design in an expanding and changing society, and the difficulty of establishing the authority - institutionalizing the observance - of such standards in an industrial and democratic community'."--Back cover.

Resources:
Donor bookplate

Subject:

City planning United States.
Architecture United States.
City planning.
Architecture
City Planning
Architecture États-Unis.
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
architecture (discipline)
United States
plattelandskern
rural settlement
stedelijke planning
steden
towns
dorpen
villages
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
filosofie
philosophy
kunst
arts
Urban Plans
Stedelijke plannen

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference publications.
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Holland, Laurence Bedwell, editor.
Princeton University. Program in American Civilization.
Princeton studies in American civilization ; no. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269987
Call No.: BIB 202495
Status: Available