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Editor: Donald P. Grant, School of Architecture, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California

Editorial Board Board: Donald P. Grant, San Luis Obispo, DMG Jean-Pierre Protzen, Berkeley, Associate Editor, DMG; Thomas Maver, Architecture, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, DRS; Nigel Cross, The Open University, DRS

The Journal was published quarterly by Donald P. Grant for distribution to members of the Design Methods Group [International] and the Design Research Society [United Kingdom]. Printed by Omega Press, San Luis Obispo

Contents

85 Progress Report: April 1973

86 The DMG and "The Design Activity" Conference Thomas L. Thomson and Donald P. Grant

88 The Second Generation and Beyond Donald P. Grant, San Luis Obispo

89 Design for Revolution or Reaction? Thomas A. Markus, Glasgow

90 The Scope for Formal Quantitative Analysis Professor Mike Simpson, Lancaster University

92 A Need for Understanding and Cross-Fertilisation Sydney Gregory, University of Aston

93 Software Design Workshop J. Christopher Jones and Christopher Crickmay

96 Application of Design Methods in Practice William R. Miller, Design Methods, Los Angeles

97 Situation Design Thomas L. Thomson, Washington University

98 Design Morphologies Martin K. Starr, Columbia University

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

99 Activities Programme Abstracts

101 Session One: Design Morphologies

104 Session Two: Design Processes, Techniques, Algorithms

110 Session Three: Design Objectives

114 Session Four: Case Studies

121 Session Five: Professionalism, Education, and Intergroup Working

OTHER CONFERENCES

124 THE TENTH ANNUAL DESIGN AUTOMATION WORKSHOP Abstracts of papers from the "Architecture" Session [July 25-27, 1973, Portland, Oregon]

125 EDRA FOUR Abstracts of papers selected for presentation at EDRA FOUR [The Fourth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, Blacksburg, Virginia, April 15-18, 1973]

130 SEVENTH ANNUAL A.C.M. URBAN SYMPOSIUM Abstracts of papers presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium on Computers and Urban Society, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery [New York, October 1972]

THE STATE OF THE ART IN DESIGN METHODS

The series of articles on "The State of the Art in Design Methods" that was initiated in March, 1971, in the DMG Newsletter is partially reproduced here as an aid in setting the stage for dialogue at the conference in London in August. Reprinted here are those entries that were originally printed in the DMG Newsletter. Additional contributions printed in the DMG-DRS JOURNAL: DESIGN RESEARCH AND METHODS starting with Volume 6 Number 1 are not reprinted here. A new entry is reprinted from PROGE SSIVE ARCHITECTURE, by Esther McCoy.

132 Esther McCoy [from P/A, October 1972]

133 Christopher Alexander, Berkeley

136 Martin K. Starr, Columbia University

137 C. West Churchman, Berkeley

137 Richard L. Meier, Berkeley

138 Sydney Gregory, University of Aston, Birmingham

138 Geoffrey Broadbent, Portsmouth Polytechnic

110 J. Christopher Jones, The Open University

141 M. Rubinger, Nova Scotia Technical College

143 Horst W. J. Rittel, Berkeley

148 Some Principles for the Design of an Educational System for Design Horst W. J. Rittel, Berkeley

BOOK REVIEWS 160 Design Participation, reviewed by R. John Lansdown, London

ARTICLES

162 Pedestrian Traffic Flows N. I. S. Foot, Birmingham, U.K.

168 Towards a Redefinition of User Needs Maureen Taylor, London

173 Perception, Environmental Preferences and The Designer Susan-Ann Lee, Kingston Polytechnic

Publication Date

4-1973

City

San Luis Obispo

Keywords

design research, drs, design research society

Disciplines

Architecture | Art and Design

DMG Journal Vol.7 No.2

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