Preface -- DESIGN AND RESEARCH -- TEACHING ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN -- EXAMPLES, PRINCIPLES, THEORIES -- WHAT ONE CAN DESIGN -- HOW ONE CAN DESIGN -- HOW DESIGN CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR -- Terms and definitions -- PLATO, ARISTOTLE, PLOTINUS: IDEA -- VITRUVIUS AND ALBERTI: COGITATIONE AND INVENTIONE -- VASARI AND ZUCCARI: DISEGNO -- OSTENDORF, RITTEL, UHL: DESIGNING, PLANNING -- AICHER AND FLUSSER: NEGATION AND TRANSCENDENCE -- Ways of designing -- PERCEPTION AND THOUGHT -- DESIGNING AS A PROCESS -- DESIGNING AS AN INDIVIDUAL ACT -- THE DESIGN CYCLE -- DESIGN TOOLS -- SYMBOLS OF CREATIVITY -- FLUSSER: THE GESTURE OF MAKING -- THE AMBIVALENCE OF TOOLS -- "DESIGN TOOLS" AS A METAPHOR -- VISUAL AND VERBAL TOOLS -- Gesture -- STARTING FROM GESTURES -- Sketch -- PARCHMENT AND PAPER -- CREATIVE IMPRECISION -- VISUAL-SPATIAL THINKING -- Language -- TRAINING AND PRACTICE -- CREATING METAPHORS, INTERPRETING, ABSTRACTING -- Design drawing -- GEOMETRY AND ABSTRACTION -- MEDIA SWITCH -- DESIGNING OR DRAWING -- DIGITALIZATION OF DRAWING -- Model -- RELATIONSHIP WITH REALITY -- THE IMPORTANCE OF MATERIALS -- Perspective view -- THE DISCOVERYOFTHE WORLD -- AMBIVALENT REALISM -- PERSPECTIVE AS AN ATTITUDE -- Photograph, film, video -- FROM RECORD TO RE-PRESENTATION -- SIMULATING IMAGES DIGITALLY -- Calculation -- CALCULATION IS INTERPRETATION -- Computer, program, simulation -- FROM CALCULATING MACHINE TO MASS MEDIUM -- DESIGNING DIGITALLY -- NETWORKING THE DESIGN TOOLS -- Criticism -- A TEACHING TOOL -- Criteria and value systems -- FIRMITAS, UTILITAS, VENUSTAS -- INNOVATION AND THE ENIGMATIC -- Theory -- AICHER:THEORY FROM BELOW -- OPEN QUESTIONS -- DESIGNING THEORY -- Trying to address the whole -- Appendix -- BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART A (GENERAL) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY, PART B (TOOLS).

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