LEADER 05122nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910458934503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-27472-6 010 $a1-281-15864-X 010 $a9786611158644 010 $a0-203-64098-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000401082 035 $a(EBL)308698 035 $a(OCoLC)191800061 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000105319 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11133664 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105319 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101531 035 $a(PQKB)11124763 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC308698 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL308698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10227289 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115864 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000401082 100 $a20050218d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aArchitecture and its ethical dilemmas$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Nicholas Ray 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cTaylor & Francis$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (422 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-34869-2 311 $a0-415-34868-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical reference (p. [157]-162) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 327 $aSpecialist 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 327 $aAn 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 327 $aMoral 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aA 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 606 $aArchitects$xProfessional ethics 606 $aArchitectural practice$xMoral and ethical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArchitects$xProfessional ethics. 615 0$aArchitectural practice$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a174/.972 701 $aRay$b Nicholas$0551519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458934503321 996 $aArchitecture and its ethical dilemmas$92209660 997 $aUNINA