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 Tools for Survival
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By
Thomas Fisher, Professor and Dean, College of Design, University of Minnesota, USA
Description
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.
Audience
Professional and student architects, as well as academics in architecture and related disciplines
Contents
Chapter One - Our Collapsing Global Bridge; Instead of superfluous form, make everything count; Instead of the quantity of things, focus
on their qualities; Chapter Two - How Nature Suffers in the Naturalistic Fallacy; Instead of throwing away, reuse or recycle; Instead
of ignoring sources, source everything; Chapter Three - Why having Less is More; Instead of consuming things, treat them as sacred; Instead
of wanting more, seek doing with less; Chapter Four - When Virtues are No Vice; Instead of more expensive things, make them affordable;
Instead of excluding other species, provide them a home; Chapter Five - Drafting a New Social Contract; Instead of cutting us off from
nature, connect us to it; Instead of reducing the diversity of a site, improve it; Chapter Six - The Needs of Duty; Instead of creating
objects to possess, build community; Instead of single-use things, make them multi-functional; Chapter Seven - The Consequences of Ignoring
Consequences; Instead of believing abstractions, attend to what is real; Instead of radical experiments, think in evolutionary terms
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 264 pages, publication date: MAR-2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6985-6
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6985-3
Imprint: ARCHITECTURAL PRESS
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