The Designer's Eye

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by Brent Brolin

W. W. Norton and Co.

Due/Published March 2002, 128 pages, paper

ISBN 0393730689

Paired Before-and-After illustrations demonstrate the sorts of real-life situations that architectural design courses rarely teach students how to address, and show how designers can manipulate form, space, and material to achieve desired effects: emphasizing or diminishing building elements, imposing visual order on a facade, or adding grace notes.