Architecture, Ethics and Globalization - Ethics, Efficacy and Architecture in the Globalized Economy

Informationen zum Autor Graham Owen Klappentext Bridging the gap between architectural theory and professional practice studies, this book offers critical inquiry into the shifting ground of ethical thought in the changing climate of the global economy. Looking at issues of contemporary significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators, and students, the book also examines the role of the architectural academy in providing an education in ethical judgement. Including transcripts of responses and discussions among its contributors, a broad interdisciplinary set of perspectives are debated and often controversial points of view are put forward. Zusammenfassung This book provides critical and interdisciplinary reflection upon issues of contemporary cultural and social significance to architectural critics, practitioners, educators and students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction  1. The First Rule of the Architect is...  2. Architecture, Globalization, and Ethics  3. Questioning Progress in the Post-Industrial Landscape  4. Architecture and Ethics: Sixteen Points  5. Building Dwelling Acting  6. Re-Making the Space for Professional Response-Ability: Lessons from the Corporate-Linked University  7. We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me): Ethics and Identity Formation in Modernist Architectural Education  8. The Privilege of Ethical Codes  9. Ethics After the Avant-Garde: Criticism and Reflexivity  10. Architectural Ethics, Multiculturalism and Globalization.  Index

Product details

• Authors: Graham Owen, Graham (Tulane School of Architecture Owen, Owen Graham
• Assisted by: Graham Owen (Editor), Graham (Tulane School of Architecture Owen (Editor), Owen Graham (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.05.2009
• EAN: 9780415323734
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32373-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Unternehmensethik und soziale Verantwortung, CSR, Economics, ARCHITECTURE / General, The environment, Sales & marketing, History of Architecture, Human Geography, Sales and marketing, Theory of architecture