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Defined by Design

THE SURPRISING POWER OF HIDDEN GENDER, AGE, AND BODY BIAS IN EVERYDAY PRODUCTS AND PLACES

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By KATHRYN H. ANTHONY
Foreword by Eric Schmidt

This wide-ranging overview of design in everyday life demonstrates how design shapes our lives in ways most of us would never imagine. The author, a leading expert in social and psychological issues in design, uncovers the gender, age, and body biases inherent in the designs of common products and living spaces that we all routinely use. From the schools our children attend and the buildings we work in to ill-fitting clothes and one-size-fits-all seating in public transportation, restaurants, and movie theaters, we are surrounded by an artificial environment that can affect our comfort, our self-image, and even our health.

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Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions

FRONT STAGE AND BACK STAGE EXPERIENCES

By Altaf Engineer and Kathryn H. Anthony

9781138215856Vast sums of money spent to design, construct, and maintain museum additions demand great accountability of museum leaders and design professionals towards visitors and employees. Museum visitors today come not only to view works of art, but also to experience museum architecture itself, resulting in most major cities competing to build new museum additions or new museum buildings to become world class tourist destinations. Shedding New Light on Art Museum Additions presents post-occupancy evaluations of four high-profile museums and their additions in the United States and helps museum stakeholders understand their successes, shortcomings, and how their designs affect both visitors and employees who use them every day.

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Designing for Diversity

GENDER, RACE, AND ETHNICITY IN THE ARCHITECTURAL PROFESSION

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A powerful statement about the repercussions of discrimination and the benefits of diversity in architecture. Providing hard data for trends that many perceive only vaguely and some deny altogether, Designing for Diversity reveals a profession rife with gender and racial discrimination and examines the aspects of architectural practice that hinder or support the full participation of women and persons of color. Given the traditional mismatch between diverse consumers and predominantly white male producers of the built environment, plus the shifting population balance toward communities of color, Anthony contends that improving the climate for nontraditional architects will do much to strengthen architecture as a profession. Practicing architects, managers of firms, students, and educators will learn how to create conditions more welcoming to a diversity of users as well as to designers.

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Design Juries on Trial

THE RENAISSANCE OF THE DESIGN STUDIO 20TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

By KATHRYN H. ANTHONY

Keep this guide at your side! Learn how to survive and thrive in design studios–and how to prepare, present and evaluate design projects in innovative, more effective ways. Empower yourself with this book to navigate your way through design school.

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Running for Our Lives

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Running for Our Lives inspires patients facing devastating diagnoses of cancer and other life-threatening illness, the families and friends who care about them, as well as medical researchers, physicians, oncology nurses, hospice providers and staff who work with terminally ill patients every day. It provides a window into the authors’ private world, one where they are dangling off a cliff, and the struggle to stay alive overshadows all else.

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