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Summary
Summary
A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, philosophy, and business, and examines the implications of such dilemmas. Taking the current discussion of ethics in architecture on to a new stage, this volume provides an accumulation of diverse opinions, focusing on architects' actions and products that materially affect the lives of people in all urbanized societies.
Author Notes
Nicholas Ray is Reader Emeritus at the University of Cambridge Department of Architecture. He is Fellow and Director of Studies in Architecture for Jesus College, Cambridge, and Director of Nicholas Ray Associates, architects, a practice mostly engaged in buildings for tertiary education. He is the author of Cambridge Architecture - a Concise Guide, numerous articles in professional journals and a forthcoming study of Alvar Aalto.
Table of Contents
| Illustration credits | p. ix |
| Notes on contributors | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Part 1 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 |
| Part 2 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 |
| Part 3 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 |
| Part 4 Personal and public ethos | p. 113 |
| Hearth and horizon | p. 115 |
| Architecture, luxury and ethics | p. 123 |
| Part 5 Ethics and aesthetics | p. 133 |
| Less aesthetics, more ethics | p. 135 |
| Architecture, morality and taste | p. 143 |
| Afterword | p. 155 |
| Select bibliography | p. 157 |
| Index | p. 163 |
