Design Expertise explores what it takes to become an expert designer. It examines the perception of expertise in design and asks what knowledge, skills, attributes, and experiences are necessary in order to design well. Bryan Lawson and Kees Dorst develop a new model of design expertise and show how design expertise can be developed.

This book is designed for all students, teachers, practitioners, and researchers in architecture and design. To enable all readers to explore the book in a flexible way, the authors’ words are always found on the left-hand page. On the right are diagrams, illustrations, and the voices of designers, teachers, and students, and occasionally others too.

Design Expertise provides a provocative new reading on the nature of design and creative thought.