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. |
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... action might be like are key responsibilities that both design and ethics share. By facing the potentially catastrophic human and environmental consequences of our over population and over consumption of resources, design and ethics can ...
... actions we should take in a conflicted situation, the history of ethics also provides us with a wealth of strategies to help us deal with the setbacks and disappointments in our lives, showing how attending to others in need is, in fact ...
... actions. But Smith also emphasized the need for design to focus on serving people and not on the beauty and order of things as ends in themselves. As Smith put it, 'from a certain love of art and contrivance, we sometimes seem to value ...
... action that transforms an existing condition into a preferred one, and the design community itself needs to design our own practices in terms of what we would prefer24. If our work is used to create scarcity – exclusivity, rarity – when ...
... actions have on others – not just the direct users and inhabitants of what we do, but everyone and everything affected by what we create, operate, and dispose of. This exponential growth in the responsibilities and the domain of ...
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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 |