262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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Architectural Design and Ethics 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. As we find ourselves on the steep slope of several exponential growth curves – in global population, in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, in... Read more
Chapter One - Our Collapsing Global Bridge; Instead of superfluous form, make everything count; Instead of the quantity of things, focus on their qualities; Chapter Two - How Nature Suffers in the Naturalistic Fallacy; Instead of throwing away, reuse or recycle; Instead of ignoring sources, source everything; Chapter Three - Why having Less is More; Instead of consuming things, treat them as sacred; Instead of wanting more, seek doing with less; Chapter Four - When Virtues are No Vice; Instead of more expensive things, make them affordable; Instead of excluding other species, provide them a home; Chapter Five - Drafting a New Social Contract; Instead of cutting us off from nature, connect us to it; Instead of reducing the diversity of a site, improve it; Chapter Six - The Needs of Duty; Instead of creating objects to possess, build community; Instead of single-use things, make them multi-functional; Chapter Seven - The Consequences of Ignoring Consequences; Instead of believing abstractions, attend to what is real; Instead of radical experiments, think in evolutionary terms
Biography
Thomas Fisher
