Focuses on neglected ethical issues of architecture, in 14 French and English papers from a symposium in Montreal in 1991. They call for the revision of assumptions about the nature of architectural history, theory, representation, and ideation; the production of buildings in the postindustrial city; and professional ethics. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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 postindustrial city; and professional ethics. These topics provide the basis for the fourteen 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. "Ethics and Poetics in the Context of Technological Production" considers the role of philosophical ethics (i.e., a rational structure of categories in architectural practice) and the possibility, and desirability, of incorporating ethical reflections into the generation of architectural form. "The Architectural Uses of History and Narrative in a Technocratic World" explores alternatives for articulating an ethical attitude in forms of discourse other than philosophy and science. These papers were originally presented at the bilingual symposium "Architecture, Ethics, and Technology" held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in 1991.
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"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.
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.
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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