Architectural Design and EthicsRoutledge, 9 de maig 2008 - 264 pàgines Architectural Design and Ethics offers both professional architects and architecture students a theoretical base and numerous suggestions as to how we might rethink our responsibilities to the natural world and design a more sustainable future for ourselves. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in the gap between the rich and poor, and in the demand for finite resources, Fisher lays down a theory of architecture based on ethics and explores how buildings can and do provide both social and moral dimensions. The book also has practical goals, demonstrating how architects can make better and more beautiful buildings whilst nurturing more responsible, sustainable development. Architectural Design and Ethics will prove an invaluable text not only to those in the architecture field, but to anyone simply interested in the ethical issues surrounding our built environment. |
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... become increasingly important, and having less increasingly common, ethics will become ever more valuable. Designers often think of ethics in terms of codes of professional conduct. But ethicists and designers both help people to ...
... become increasingly important, and having less increasingly common, ethics will become ever more valuable. Designers often think of ethics in terms of codes of professional conduct. But ethicists and designers both help people to ...
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... become clear to most observers that we cannot continue moving at these exponential rates without some very unpleasant results. The biologist David Suzuki described exponential growth recently to the annual convention of the American ...
... become clear to most observers that we cannot continue moving at these exponential rates without some very unpleasant results. The biologist David Suzuki described exponential growth recently to the annual convention of the American ...
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... become a primary part of what ethicists and designers do: helping people envision alternative futures that take into account all possible threats and that show how we can construct environments that enable us to live better lives. That ...
... become a primary part of what ethicists and designers do: helping people envision alternative futures that take into account all possible threats and that show how we can construct environments that enable us to live better lives. That ...
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... become harder than it is now. But whether the global economy will continue to grow and material prosperity will continue to expand is another matter, especially if we see a collapse in some of Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for ...
... become harder than it is now. But whether the global economy will continue to grow and material prosperity will continue to expand is another matter, especially if we see a collapse in some of Architectural Design and Ethics: Tools for ...
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... become even more important as we adjust to such changes. While communists focused on use value, and capitalists on exchange value, we might, instead, focus on the ethical values implicit in what Smith said. According to Smith, we may ...
... become even more important as we adjust to such changes. While communists focused on use value, and capitalists on exchange value, we might, instead, focus on the ethical values implicit in what Smith said. According to Smith, we may ...
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How nature suffers in the naturalistic fallacy | 35 |
Why having less is more | 69 |
When virtues are no vice | 103 |
Drafting a new social contract | 135 |
The needs of duty | 171 |
The consequences of ignoring consequences | 203 |
References | 237 |
Index | 245 |
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