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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Pàgina vii
... environments. Instead, its seven chapters on ethics, 28 essays on places, and 14 brief design principles all try to ... environmental resources upon which we have built our world and around which we have constructed our lives. Many of us ...
... environments. Instead, its seven chapters on ethics, 28 essays on places, and 14 brief design principles all try to ... environmental resources upon which we have built our world and around which we have constructed our lives. Many of us ...
Pàgina viii
... environmental collapse, and more that of fear. As my psychologist father used to say, fear often arises out of an apprehension of loss and a worry that others will take advantage of us as a result, and this is where ethics can help us ...
... environmental collapse, and more that of fear. As my psychologist father used to say, fear often arises out of an apprehension of loss and a worry that others will take advantage of us as a result, and this is where ethics can help us ...
Pàgina ix
... environments. But no one person can say what that should be. The more creative and diverse the solutions we can all ... environmental collapse, it has been our hubris, and one thing that will keep us from going completely over that edge ...
... environments. But no one person can say what that should be. The more creative and diverse the solutions we can all ... environmental collapse, it has been our hubris, and one thing that will keep us from going completely over that edge ...
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... environment – all giving us much less room for error. Any of these events could happen suddenly and unexpectedly, and any of them would, in turn, affect us all. While we would no doubt muddle through, the threats to human civilization ...
... environment – all giving us much less room for error. Any of these events could happen suddenly and unexpectedly, and any of them would, in turn, affect us all. While we would no doubt muddle through, the threats to human civilization ...
Pàgina 5
... environments that enable us to live better lives. That role all may seem far removed from the practices of designers ... environment contributes most of the humangenerated greenhouse gases, almost 50 per cent of which comes from the ...
... environments that enable us to live better lives. That role all may seem far removed from the practices of designers ... environment contributes most of the humangenerated greenhouse gases, almost 50 per cent of which comes from the ...
Continguts
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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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