Architectural Design and Ethics

Architectural Desin and Ethics

Contents 
Chapter 1: Our collapsing global bridge 1

Places 21

Earth 21

Air 24

Water 27

Fire 30 Principles 33

Instead of superfluous form, make everything count 33

Instead of quantity, focus on qualities 34

Chapter 2: How nature suffers in the naturalistic fallacy 35

 Places 54

Home 54
Housing 57
University 60
School 63 Principles 65
Instead of throwing away, reuse or recycle 65
Instead of ignoring sources, attend to the source of everything 67
Chapter 3: Why having less is more 69
Places 87
Cemetery 87
Mounds 90
Temple 93
Cathedral 96 Principles 99
Instead of consuming things, treat everything as sacred 99
Instead of wanting more, seek doing with less 101
Chapter 4: When virtues are no vice 103
 Places 121 Hospital 121
Healing garden 124 Golf course 126 Playground 129  Principles 131 Instead of expensiveness, focus on affordability 131 Instead of excluding others, provide everyone a place 133
Chapter 5: Drafting a new social contract 135
 Places 154   City 154 Suburb 157 Town 160 Country 163
 Principles 166 Instead of cutting us off from nature, connect us to it 166 Instead of reducing the ecological diversity of a site, improve it 168
Chapter 6: The needs of duty 171
 Places 188   Corporations 188 Office 191 Store 193 Factory 196
 Principles 199 Instead of creating objects to possess, build community 199 Instead of specialized things that can only have one use, make them multi-functional 201
Chapter 7: The consequences of ignoring consequences 203
 Places 221   Laboratory 221 Museum 224 Loft 227 Fort 230
 Principles 233 Instead of radical experiments, see everything in evolutionary terms 233 Instead of focusing on abstractions, attend to what is real 235

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