Architectural Design and Ethics - Tools for Survival

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Fisher Zusammenfassung 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. This book demonstrates how architects can make better buildings whilst nurturing more responsible development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Our Collapsing Global Bridge; How Nature Suffers in the Naturalistic Fallacy; Why having Less is More; When Virtues are No Vice; Drafting a New Social Contract; The Needs of Duty; The Consequences of Ignoring Consequences;

List of contents

Our Collapsing Global Bridge; How Nature Suffers in the Naturalistic Fallacy; Why having Less is More; When Virtues are No Vice; Drafting a New Social Contract; The Needs of Duty; The Consequences of Ignoring Consequences;

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Fisher, Thomas (University of Minnesota) Fisher
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2008
• EAN: 9780750669856
• ISBN: 978-0-7506-6985-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues and debates, Architectural structure and design