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:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing 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 of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current discussion of ethics in architecture on to a new stage, this volume provides an accumulation of diverse o

Contents:

Contents; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Footnotes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Footnotes; Part 1 The historical perspective; Chapter 2 Practical wisdom for architects; The architect as quasi-arbitrator; Higher ideals; Survival; Architecture as art; Puginian truthfulness; Usefulness, and the architect's mission; The idea of the avant-garde; A moral agenda for today; Footnotes; Chapter 3 The Cambridge History Faculty Building; Footnotes; Part 2 The professional context in the twenty-first century; Footnotes; Chapter 4 Architecture and its ethical dilemmas; Partnering

Specialist contractorsDesign quality; Footnotes; Chapter 5 Architecture, art and accountability; Footnotes; Chapter 6 Responsive practice; The context of practice; An ethical role; Managerial or ethical values; The design team; Appropriate architectural education; Measuring design quality; Footnotes; Chapter 7 On being a humble architect; Footnotes; Part 3 Accountability and the architectural imagination; Chapter 8 Accountability, trust and professional practice; Is trust obsolete?; Accountability and transparency; 'Managerial accountability'; Merits and limits of managerial accountability

An intelligent approach to accountabilityThe general structure of intelligent accountability; Adding transparency; Standards for intelligent accountability; Informed judgement; Independent judgement; Intelligible communication; Institutions, professions and professionalism; Footnotes; Chapter 9 Moral imagination and the practice of architecture; The practice of architecture; Practice as the locus of 'the good'; Narratives of practice; Communities of practice; Agency and responsibility; Moral imagination; Exercising moral imagination; Moral imagination in practice

Moral imagination as artisticMoral imagination as communal and systemic; Footnotes; Chapter 10 Codes of ethics and coercion; The ARB and the RIBA standards; Vulnerability; Cultural capital; Codes and coercion; Some partial prescriptions; Postscript; Footnotes; Part 4 Personal and public ethos; Chapter 11 Hearth and horizon; Competing ethical demands; Habit; The habits of architecture; An alternative ethos; Nature and culture; Footnotes; Chapter 12 Architecture, luxury and ethics; Footnotes; Part 5 Ethics and aesthetics; Chapter 13 Less aesthetics, more ethics

The ethical function of architectureCognitive mapping; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 14 Architecture, morality and taste; Philosophy, history and philosophical merit; Beauty and the sensual; Culture; Courbet's Origin of the World; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 15 Afterword; Footnotes; Select bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical reference (p. [157]-162) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-27472-6

1-281-15864-X

9786611158644

0-203-64098-5

9780203640982

OCLC:

191800061