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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
Citation
Grant, D. P. (eds.) (1973) DMG Journal Vol.7 No.2, San Luis Obispo https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/dmg-journal/2