The Ethics of architecture / Mark Kingwell

By:

Kingwell, Mark [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2021Description: xxi, 151 pages ; 22 cmISBN:

9780197558546

Subject(s):

ARCHITECTURE PHILOSOPHY

LOC classification:

NA 2500 .K56 2021

Contents:

Preface -- Built Forms and Ethics: The General Issues -- Chapter 1. Creating Buildings -- Chapter 2. Creating Environments -- Chapter 3. Creating Communities -- Chapter 4. Creating Art -- Chapter 5. Creating Justice -- Chapter 6. Creating Being -- Chapter 7. Epilogue: Afterthoughts; or Thoughts After Walking Acknowledgments

Summary: The Ethics of Architecture offers a short and approachable scholarly introduction to a timely question: in a world of increasing population density, how does one construct habitable spaces that promote social goals like health, happiness, environmental friendliness, and justice? What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and their associates in building enjoy vast influence on how all we live, work, play, worship, and think. With this influence comes tremendous, and not always examined, responsibility. This book addresses the range of ethical issues that architects face, with a broad understanding of ethics. Beyond strictly professional duties - transparency, technical competence, fair trading - lie more profound issues that move into aesthetic, political, and existential realms.

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Books - Reserve

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books - Reserve	National University - Manila	LRC - Architecture Reserve	Architecture	RES NA 2500 .K56 2021 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000018727

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Ethics of Architecture offers a short and approachable scholarly introduction to a timely question: in a world of increasing population density, how does one construct habitable spaces that promote social goals like health, happiness, environmental friendliness, and justice? What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and their associates in building enjoy vast influence on how all we live, work, play, worship, and think. With this influence comes tremendous, and not always examined, responsibility. This book addresses the range of ethical issues that architects face, with a broad understanding of ethics. Beyond strictly professional duties - transparency, technical competence, fair trading - lie more profound issues that move into aesthetic, political, and existential realms.

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