1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458934503321

Titolo

Architecture and its ethical dilemmas [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nicholas Ray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Taylor & Francis, c2005

ISBN

1-134-27472-6

1-281-15864-X

9786611158644

0-203-64098-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RayNicholas

Disciplina

174/.972

Soggetti

Architects - Professional ethics

Architectural practice - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical reference (p. [157]-162) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustration credits; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Footnotes; Chapter 1 Introduction; Footnotes; Part 1 The historical perspective; Chapter 2 Practical wisdom for architects; The architect as quasi-arbitrator; Higher ideals; Survival; Architecture as art; Puginian truthfulness; Usefulness, and the architect's mission; The idea of the avant-garde; A moral agenda for today; Footnotes; Chapter 3 The Cambridge History Faculty Building; Footnotes; Part 2 The professional context in the twenty-first century; Footnotes; Chapter 4 Architecture and its ethical dilemmas; Partnering

Specialist contractorsDesign quality; Footnotes; Chapter 5 Architecture, art and accountability; Footnotes; Chapter 6 Responsive practice; The context of practice; An ethical role; Managerial or ethical values; The design team; Appropriate architectural education; Measuring design quality; Footnotes; Chapter 7 On being a humble architect; Footnotes; Part 3 Accountability and the architectural imagination; Chapter 8 Accountability, trust and professional practice; Is trust obsolete?; Accountability and transparency; 'Managerial accountability'; Merits and limits of managerial accountability



An intelligent approach to accountabilityThe general structure of intelligent accountability; Adding transparency; Standards for intelligent accountability; Informed judgement; Independent judgement; Intelligible communication; Institutions, professions and professionalism; Footnotes; Chapter 9 Moral imagination and the practice of architecture; The practice of architecture; Practice as the locus of 'the good'; Narratives of practice; Communities of practice; Agency and responsibility; Moral imagination; Exercising moral imagination; Moral imagination in practice

Moral imagination as artisticMoral imagination as communal and systemic; Footnotes; Chapter 10 Codes of ethics and coercion; The ARB and the RIBA standards; Vulnerability; Cultural capital; Codes and coercion; Some partial prescriptions; Postscript; Footnotes; Part 4 Personal and public ethos; Chapter 11 Hearth and horizon; Competing ethical demands; Habit; The habits of architecture; An alternative ethos; Nature and culture; Footnotes; Chapter 12 Architecture, luxury and ethics; Footnotes; Part 5 Ethics and aesthetics; Chapter 13 Less aesthetics, more ethics

The ethical function of architectureCognitive mapping; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 14 Architecture, morality and taste; Philosophy, history and philosophical merit; Beauty and the sensual; Culture; Courbet's Origin of the World; Conclusions; Footnotes; Chapter 15 Afterword; Footnotes; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 o



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552370703316

Autore

Wippel Steffen

Titolo

Branding the Middle East : Communication Strategies and Image Building from Qom to Casablanca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

De Gruyter

Berlin/Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

3-11-074110-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (676 pages)

Collana

Studies on Modern Orient Series ; ; v.38

Disciplina

658.8270956

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971870403321

Autore

Becker Seymour

Titolo

Russia's protectorates in Central Asia : Bukhara and Khiva, 1865-1924 / / Seymour Becker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004

ISBN

1-134-33582-2

1-134-33583-0

1-280-17515-X

0-203-39083-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (370 p.)

Collana

Central Asian studies series ; ; 5

Disciplina

958.708

Soggetti

Bukhoro (Uzbekistan) Politics and government

Khiva (Uzbekistan) Politics and government

Russia Territorial expansion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Dedication; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Introduction; Supplementary Bibliography; Part One /The Russian Conquest; Part Two /The Period of Neglect; Part Three /The Russian Presence; Part Four /Revolution; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Appendix 3; Abbreviations Used in Bibliography and Notes; Bibliography; Notes; Russian Research Center Studies; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the Russian conquest of the ancient Central Asian khanates of Bukhara and Khiva in the 1860s and 1870s, and the relationship between Russia and the territories until their extinction as political entities in 1924. It shows how Russia's approach developed from one of non-intervention, with the primary aim of preventing British expansion from India into the region, to one of increasing intervention as trade and Russian settlement grew. It goes on to discuss the role of Bukhara and Khiva in the First World War and the Russian Revolution, and how the region was fundamentally cha