Architecture and Its Ethical Dilemmas

by Ray, Nicholas

• ISBN13: 9780203640982
• ISBN10: 0203640985
• Copyright: 2005-11-24
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Ethical issues, both practical and philosophical, are constantly arising in architectural work. This volume relates a broad range of theoretical questions to dilemmas encountered in practice, informed by contributions from many different disciplines.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
The historical perspective	p. 5
Practical wisdom for architects : the uses of ethics	p. 7
The Cambridge History Faculty Building : a case study in ethical dilemmas in the twentieth century	p. 23
The professional context in the twenty-first century	p. 35
Architecture and its ethical dilemmas	p. 39
Architecture, art and accountability	p. 49
Responsive practice	p. 55
On being a humble architect	p. 69
Accountability and the architectural imagination	p. 75
Accountability, trust and professional practice : the end of professionalism?	p. 77
Moral imagination and the practice of architecture	p. 89
Codes of ethics and coercion	p. 101
Personal and public ethos	p. 113
Hearth and horizon	p. 115
Architecutre, luxury and ethics	p. 123
Ethics and aesthetics	p. 133
Less aesthetics, more ethics	p. 135
Architecture, morality and taste	p. 143
Afterword	p. 155
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