Foreword: Apostle of workmanship -- 1. Design proposes. Workmanship disposes -- 2. The workmanship of risk, the workmanship of certainty -- 3. Is anything done by hand? -- 4. Quality in workmanship -- 5. The designer's power to communicate his intentions -- 6. The natural order reflected in the work of man -- 7. Diversity -- 8. Durability -- 9. Equivocality -- 10. Critique of 'On the Nature of Gothic' -- 11. The aesthetic importance of workmanship, and its future This is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. In it, David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacture. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept of good workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity to our visual environment