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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... sense of vulnerability and uncertainty just below the surface of our lives right now. The whole superstructure of modern civilization, seemingly so stable and secure, has started to feel as shaky as that bridge just before it collapsed ...
... sense of vulnerability and uncertainty just below the surface of our lives right now. The whole superstructure of modern civilization, seemingly so stable and secure, has started to feel as shaky as that bridge just before it collapsed ...
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... sense of duty, as well as virtues such as compassion and courage, that come from the habit of being ethical, of helping others as we would want them to help us were we in their position. Think of this book, then, as a kind of survival ...
... sense of duty, as well as virtues such as compassion and courage, that come from the habit of being ethical, of helping others as we would want them to help us were we in their position. Think of this book, then, as a kind of survival ...
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... sense in a highly interdependent economy, but it becomes a definite disadvantage if we end up, as James Howard Kunstler envisions in The Long Emergency, being forced, because of the disappearance of cheap oil, to return to local ...
... sense in a highly interdependent economy, but it becomes a definite disadvantage if we end up, as James Howard Kunstler envisions in The Long Emergency, being forced, because of the disappearance of cheap oil, to return to local ...
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... to perfect and improve a certain beautiful and orderly system, than from any immediate sense or feeling of what they either suffer or enjoy'. Designers fail, in other words, when we either get too 11 Our collapsing global bridge.
... to perfect and improve a certain beautiful and orderly system, than from any immediate sense or feeling of what they either suffer or enjoy'. Designers fail, in other words, when we either get too 11 Our collapsing global bridge.
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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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