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Architecture and its ethical dilemmas /

Architects are increasingly facing ethical questions in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ray, Nicholas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Nicholas Ray
  • Part 1. The historical perspective ; Practical wisdom for architects : the uses of ethics / Andrew Saint
  • The Cambridge history faculty building : a case study in ethical dilemmas in the twentieth century / Nicholas Ray
  • Part 2. The professional context in the twenty-first century ; Architecture and its ethical dilemmas / Michael Latham
  • Architecture, art and accountability / Richard MacCormac
  • Responsive practice / Giles Oliver
  • On being a humble architect / Sjoerd Soeters
  • Part 3. Accountability and the architectural imagination ; Accountability, trust and professional practice : the end of professionalism? / Onora O'Neill
  • Moral imagination and the practice of architecture / Jane Collier
  • Codes of ethics and coercion / Tom Spector
  • Part 4. Personal and public ethos ; Hearth and horizon / Andrew Ballantyne
  • Architecture, luxury and ethics / Richard Hill
  • Part 5. Ethics and aesthetics ; Less aesthetics, more ethics / Neil Leach
  • Architecture, morality and taste / Julian Roberts
  • Afterword / Nicholas Ray.