![]() This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges―the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge―and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts―knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology―and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. No engineer can design such a thing and none has ever been built."―from Artifice and Design We have no idea how to make something that is merely efficient, a rational instrument blindly indifferent to how it appears. ![]() In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems). Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. "As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. ![]()
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