Architecture and its ethical dilemmas / edited by Nicholas Ray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ray, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architects--Professional ethics.

Architects.

Architectural practice--Moral and ethical aspects.

Architectural practice.

Physical Description:

xvii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, [2005]

Summary:

Provocative, timely and extensive in scope, Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas examines the changing role of architects and the particular professional dilemmas they face.

Architects and designers are constantly confronted by these ethical issues, ranging from professional issues to more philosophical questions. Should architects spend some of their clients' money on features that would improve buildings even if they're not necessary or part of the clients' design brief? Who is architecture for? As the products of the architect's work are often in the public domain and reflect society's values, are architects, too, merely servants of society? What place does the professional architect-client relationship have in the twenty-first century? Can aesthetics be disassociated from ethics in a visual medium?

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle these questions from a range of perspectives across architecture, the building and design industries, social theory and philosophy to contribute to the growing literature in the sociology of the professions.

Contents:

Part 1 The historical perspective 5

Practical wisdom for architects: the uses of ethics / Andrew Saint 7

The Cambridge History Faculty Building: a case study in ethical dilemmas in the twentieth century / Nicholas Ray 23

Part 2 The professional context in the twenty-first century 35

Architecture and its ethical dilemmas / Michael Latham 39

Architecture, art and accountability / Richard MacCormac 49

Responsive practice / Giles Oliver 55

On being a humble architect / Sjoerd Soeters 69

Part 3 Accountability and the architectural imagination 75

Accountability, trust and professional practice: the end of professionalism? / Onora O'Neill 77

Moral imagination and the practice of architecture / Jane Collier 89

Codes of ethics and coercion / Tom Spector 101

Part 4 Personal and public ethos 113

Hearth and horizon / Andrew Ballantyne 115

Architecture, luxury and ethics / Richard Hill 123

Part 5 Ethics and aesthetics 133

Less aesthetics, more ethics / Neil Leach 135

Architecture, morality and taste / Julian Roberts 143.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-162) and index.

ISBN:

0415348684

0415348692

0203640985

OCLC:

57694879

Publisher Number:

9780415348683 (hbk. : alk. paper)

9780415348690 (pbk. : alk. paper)