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Access by Design

Author George A. Covington, Bruce Hannah
Publisher Wiley
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PublisherWiley
ISBN / ASIN0471287261
ISBN-139780471287261
Sales Rank3,002,840
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸

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"Our individual disability becomes a handicap only when we encounter a barrier."
? George Covington, Co-author

"Why not consider designing for your lifetime, not just your primetime?"
? Jane Langmiur, Architect

"Universal design is good design because it is design for the user and not design for the designer."
? Marc Harrison, IDSA, Professor, Rhode Island School of Design

"The issue is not so much, ?what a great idea!,? as how did we get it wrong for so long?"
? Geoff Hollington, Universal Designer, Geoff Hollington Associates

"It?s a way of thinking; a new ingredient to design education and professional practice that can become a catalyst for invigorating our design sensibilities."
? Bill Palmer, Architect, Hellmuth, Obata, & Kassabaum, Inc.

"A designed object, product, building, or landscape earns the term Universal Design only if, in its final built state, it works properly in one form for everyone."
? Kevin Owens, Director of Product Development for Play/Designs & Playworld Systems