UnderstandingUnderstanding
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (644 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1939621690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 708 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A book for the 21st century Understanding is not binary-- it's, it's, it's-- all over the place! What a wonderful lifetime's collection from the world's #1 curator and curiositeer on understanding in all it's colors. Why don't we teach this in school???
He is also a Fellow of the AIA and in the Art Director’s Club Hall of Fame. Arch. He has been awarded several honorary doctorates, Graham Fellowships, a Guggenheim and numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as being the Distinguished Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University. Arch. Richard Saul Wurman has written, designed and published 90 books on wildly divergent topics. degrees from
degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1959 with the highest honors, and was awarded the Arthur Spayed Brooks Gold Medal. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Richard Wurman created and chaired the TED conference from 1984 thru 2002, the TEDMED conference from 1995 to 2010, as well as the e.g. Arch. and WWW conference. He received both his M. & B. About the Author Richard Saul Wurman has written, designed and publishe
This is a book for people to dip into, as they would walk in and out of the room of a dinner party and embrace their interests. It is about the fantasy of being the dumbest person in the room and being able to identify all the myriad connections of how others think, talk, explain and visualize. The following is a collection of many of the most interesting idiosyncratic paths of understanding that lead to creation.. Before Information Architecture, before the rules on how to organize information, before you learn grammar, before you work hard at expanding your vocabulary and go through the exercises of parallel meanings of things as using a Thesaurus and as one writes papers in class, before any learning one must understand. This book could be called A Ce