Tom Spector

Architecture and the Public Good (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Why has explaining the value of the architecture profession proven so difficult? The architecture profession can be well-defended by demonstrating the public good which results from its protected practice. Although the book believes in this approach, this approach immediately raises the thorny questions of just who is the public, and what is its good? To answer these questions, to explain why the profession has done a poor job explaining itself, and to propose a fresh perspective are the challenges set out in this book. The book dissects the internal weaknesses and external forces which have prevented architects from asserting their value to the public, explains how the concept of the public is itself widely misunderstood, investigates the shifting boundaries of the public and private realms, and proposes a series of measures by which we can assess and improve an architectural work's publicness. Through a renewed focus on the public good that everyday architects are capable of as a profession, the book charts an ultimately optimistic program for the architecture profession's renewal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785277368
• Artikelnr.: 62656978

Autorenporträt

Tom Spector is emeritus Professor of Architecture at Oklahoma State University and an internationally-acknowledged leader in the ethics of architecture and in architectural writing.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
1. The Architecture Profession and the Public Good
2. The Architecture Profession in Capitalism
3. Who Is the Public?
4. Public and Private
5. Toward an Architecture of Publicness
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.