Architecture and the public good / Tom Spector.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spector, Tom, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Common good.

Architecture--Moral and ethical aspects.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (174 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Anthem Press, [2021]

Summary:

The best chance for ethically grounding the architecture profession is in the public good that results from licensing but architects have done an unconvincing job of communicating the nature of this good. Architecture and the Public Good dissects the underlying tensions causing this situation and proposes solutions that would enable the profession to more forcefully state its case to the world.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 The Architecture Profession and the Public Good

Introduction

Architecture's Culture of Patronage

Our Ambivalent Defense of the Profession

Ambivalence Reaches into Our Codes of Ethics

The ARB and the RIBA Standards

Codes and Coercion

Some Partial Prescriptions for Change

Chapter 2 The Architecture Profession in Capitalism

Good Design Is Not Good Business

Economic Studies of Design Profitability

Design Obsolescence

Risk

Public and Private Goods

Globalization and the Waning of the Architectural Middle Class

Globalization and Moral Relativism

Chapter 3 Who Is the Public?

The Enlightenment, the Bourgeois Public, and the Architect

Neoliberal Economics, Procedural Democracy, and Utilitarianism

The Memorial Cul-de-sac

The Manager, the Rich Aesthete and the Therapist

Publics and Counterpublics

Chapter 4 Public and Private

The Dilemmas of Feminist Ethics

The Agora and the Hearth

The Performance of Care

Gender Boundaries

Exploring the Boundary between Public and Private in Contemporary Practice

Moral and Artistic Values in the Evaluation of Architecture

The Caring Perspective in Practice

Chapter 5 Toward an Architecture of Publicness

Architecture as Infrastructure

Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS)

Emptiness

Politics

Appropriation

Public Face

Scale

Everyday Nobility

Serving the Public though Making the Profession More Accountable

1. Taking Control of Cost

2. Enacting Basic Public Protections

3. Eliminating Free Work

4. Making use of Scientific Research

5. Respecting Employees

Climate Change and the Problem of Future Publics

Conclusion: The Next Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Appendix.

Appendix A: Tabulation of Firms

Appendix B: Top US-based Architecture Firms and Top EA or A Firms

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78527-735-9

1-78527-736-7

OCLC:

1272999231