Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design

Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
By Henry Petroski
TA 174 .P4739 2006

Petroski, an engineer, has written a book that will appeal to engineers, architects, and designers about design and what makes a great design. He notes that the most successful improvements made ultimately are those that focus on the limitation – on the failures – of a specific design; “success and failure in design are intertwined” (3). Petroski even speculates when the next major bridge failure will most likely occur. To find out this and many other interesting facts about the evolution of design and where it is headed in the future read Success Through Failure.