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Five Critical Essays on Architectural Ethics

First Published by TRG Publishing, May 2024
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Five Critical Essays on Architectural Ethics

These days it seems that ethical behaviour has become a given

The latest issue in the series from the Future Cities Project (FCP), Five Critical Essays on Architectural Ethics, is a collection that speaks to the question of the ‘self-determination’ of the designer. The five essays are by academics and professional practitioners: Dennis Hayes, Eleanor Jolliffe, Jide Ehizele, Alan Dunlop and James Woudhuysen. These and are ‘topped-and-tailed’ by the FCP director, Austin Williams, and the principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, Patrik Schumacher.

In his foreword to the latest edition, Williams highlights the crux of the ‘ethical’ problem in design and architecture: ‘Ethics has stopped being a difficult philosophical tussle about how things should be. The intellectual battle about the various interpretations of the meaning of life have been ceded to compliance spreadsheets reliant on scientific, empirical or mechanistic evidence.’

Contents

7                 Foreword by Austin Williams

13               Taking Ethics Seriously by Dennis Hayes

19               Codifying moral behaviour by Eleanor Jolliffe

25               Uneven Development by Jide Ehizele

33               Common Sense by Alan Dunlop

39               Moral Grandstanding by James Woudhuysen

47               Afterword by Patrik Schumacher

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