How to design a black and white box

Kybernetes

Volumn 36, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 1329-1339

  Gage, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cybernetics; Design

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN;

DESIGN WORK; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS; INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE; PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS; WHITE BOX;

CYBERNETICS;

EID: 36448995485     PISSN: 0368492X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03684920710827337     Document Type: Article

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