Overview

The essays in this collection focus on crucial ethical concerns largely absent from the practice of architecture during the last two centuries. The contributors are aware of a crisis in our culture's concepts of architecture and hope to ensure a greater future relevance for the discipline. An enlightened discussion of all relevant aspects of architecture shows the necessity for revision of commonly held assumptions about the nature of architectural history, theory, representation, and ideation; the production of buildings in the post-industrial city; and professional ethics. These topics provide the basis for the 14 interdisciplinary papers presented here. The introductory section includes an examination of the epistemological origins of technology in the early modern European context and two alternative visions of ethics and its potential relevance for architecture. The second part presents four perspectives on important questions about how we represent buildings and the ethical values involved in that representation. The book considers the role of philosophical ethics (ie. a rational structure of categories in architectural practice) and the possibility, and desirability, of incorporating ethical reflections into the generation of architectural form. It explores alternatives for articulating an ethical attitude in forms of discourse other than philosophy and science.

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Author:   Louise Pelletier ,  Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780773511484

ISBN 10:   0773511482
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 March 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Alberto Perez-Gomez; architecture and the question of technology, Dalibor Vesely; que peut etre ou faire l'ethique en architecture?, Lukas K. Sosoe; ethics and architects - spaces, voids, and travelling-in-hope, Margaret A. Somerville. Part 1 Ethics and architectural representation in the age of simulation: master plan for the old port of Montreal, Peter Rose; pour que la vie ait lieu (fragments), Philippe Madec; architecture virtuelle et infographie - quelques questions posees a l'architecture, Jean-Pierre Hardenne; representation in the age of simulation, Dan Hoffman. Part 2 Ethics and poetics in the context of technological production: ethique et tact, Jacques Rousseau; l'architecture consideree sous l'angle du processus - les enjeux ethiques, Robert Prost; architecture et techno-ethique - contribution a une ethique de l'architecture, Alain Findeli. Part 3 The architectural uses of history and narrative in a technocratic world: the ethics of narrative at Trent, Richard Henriquez and Gregory Henriquez; ""the problem with the architect as writer"" - time and narrative in the work of Aldo Rossi and John Hejduk, Lily Chi; la ville telle quelle - un theme de representation architecturale, Irena Latek."

Reviews

A provocative and useful conjunction of ideas ... The intellectual level of the theme has been set very high ... I know of no other recent event of this sort which combines discourses from distinct disciplines so provocatively. George Baird, Baird/Sampson Architects.

Author Information

Alberto Pérez-Gómez is Saidye Rosner Bronfman Chair of the History of Architecture at McGill University. Stephen Parcell is professor of architecture at Dalhousie University and author of Four Historical Definitions of Architecture.

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