Style and Creativity in Design

This book looks at causative reasons behind creative acts and stylistic expressions. It explores how creativity is initiated by design cognition and explains relationships between style and creativity. The book establishes a new cognitive theory of style

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Chiu-Shui Chan

Style and Creativity in Design

Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics Volume 17

Series Editor Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Editorial Board Atocha Aliseda, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Coyoacan, Mexico Giuseppe Longo, Centre Cavaillès, CNRS - Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France Chris Sinha, Hunan University, Changsha, China Paul Thagard, Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada John Woods, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

About this Series Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) publishes new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific disciplines and technological outcomes: from computer science to life sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathematics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. It aims at covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical, methodological, and practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts. The series includes monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops as well as selected PhD theses.

Advisory Board A. Abe, Chiba, Japan H. Andersen, Aarhus, Denmark O. Bueno, Coral Gables, USA S. Chandrasekharan, Mumbai, India M. Dascal, Tel Aviv, Israel G.D. Crnkovic, Västerås, Sweden M. Ghins, Lovain-la-Neuve, Belgium M. Guarini,Windsor, Canada R. Gudwin, Campinas, Brazil A. Heeffer, Ghent, Belgium M. Hildebrandt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands K.E. Himma, Seattle, USA M. Hoffmann, Atlanta, USA P. Li, Guangzhou, P.R. China G. Minnameier, Frankfurt, Germany M. Morrison, Toronto, Canada Y. Ohsawa, Tokyo, Japan S. Paavola, Helsinki, Finland W. Park, Daejeon, South Korea

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Chiu-Shui Chan

Style and Creativity in Design

Chiu-Shui Chan Architecture Department Iowa State University Ames, Iowa, USA

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the figures and tables which have been reproduced from other sources. Anyone who has not been properly credited is requested to contact the publishers, so that due acknowledgment may be made in subsequent editions. ISSN 2192-6255 ISSN 2192-6263 (electronic) Studies in A