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36Architecture and the ethics of authenticityJournal of Aesthetic Education 45 (4): 23-33. 2011.Silos, mills, sheds, and refineries: Across most of Oklahoma’s gently rolling prairie countryside these artistically uninformed structures often provide the only vertical punctuation to a landscape otherwise made of mostly horizontal lines. One of the pleasures of teaching architecture here is to participate in the intellectual progress of students—many of whom hail from rural areas and have traveled little—as they eventually come to regard these structures with much the same admiration expresse…Read more
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1012Does the Sustainability Movement Sustain a Sustainable Design Ethic for Architecture?Environmental Ethics 28 (3): 265-283. 2006.The sustainability movement, currently gathering considerable attention from architects, derives much of its moral foundation from the theoretical initiatives of environmental ethics. How is the value of sustainability to mesh with architecture’s time-tested values? The idea that an ethic of sustainability might serve architects’ efforts to reground their practices in something that opposes consumer values of the marketplace has intuitive appeal and makes a certain amount of sense. However, it i…Read more
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403Architecture, Ethics and the Personhood of Place (review)Environmental Ethics 31 (1): 101-104. 2009.
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37Book Review: Is There an Object Oriented Architecture? Engaging Graham Harman (review)Architecture Philosophy 5 (2). 2022.
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17Should Architects Refrain From Designing Prisons for Long-term Solitary Confinement? – An Open Letter to the Architecture ProfessionArchitecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.In a profile in the November, 2012 issue of the magazine Architect, activist-architect Raphael Sperry, a founder of the group Architects Planners & Designers for Social Responsibility discussed his petition to amend the AIA’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to include a prohibition on “the design of spaces intended for long-term solitary isolation and execution.”1 This issue is both serious and timely. It deserves contemplative attention before any action is taken. The purpose of this le…Read more
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Book Reviews (review)Architecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.The Philosophy of Chinese Architecture by David Wang Thinking Like a Mall by Steven Vogel
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18Architecture and the PoliticalArchitecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.We are living through a radicalized, unsettling moment in Western politics as what seemed the drift of history towards democracy, greater individual freedoms, increased fairness and greater international cooperation is at least temporarily reversed. As we finished production of this issue, ISPA was also concluding its 4th Biennial conference at a most overtly political venue— The United States Air Force Academy—which is simultaneously a Mecca for modern architecture lovers as well as an indisput…Read more
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24Philosophy Of Architecture / Written by Christian Illies & Nicholas RayArchitecture Philosophy 2 (1). 2016.
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12Does the Sustainability Movement Sustain a Sustainable Design Ethic for Architecture?Environmental Ethics 28 (3): 265-283. 2006.The sustainability movement, currently gathering considerable attention from architects, derives much of its moral foundation from the theoretical initiatives of environmental ethics. How is the value of sustainability to mesh with architecture’s time-tested values? The idea that an ethic of sustainability might serve architects’ efforts to reground their practices in something that opposes consumer values of the marketplace has intuitive appeal and makes a certain amount of sense. However, it i…Read more
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580Joan Ockman, ed. The Pragmatist Imagination: Thinking About “Things in the Making” New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000. Pp. 288. ISBN 1-56898-287-9 (review)Contemporary Pragmatism 1 (2): 195-196. 2004.
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17Book Review: Philosophy Of Architecture / Written by Christian Illies & Nicholas Ray (review)Architecture Philosophy 2 (1). 2016.
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2527Pragmatism for ArchitectsContemporary Pragmatism 1 (1): 133-149. 2004.Dewey's pragmatist aesthetics attempts to reconcile the tension between public and private demands on the work of art that has troubled contemporary architecture since the passing of modernism. As a public philosophy of art it holds tremendous promise; but architects will likely find Dewey's characterization of the individual encounter with the work of art less satisfactory. This suggests that Dewey's pragmatism may have over-committed to a singular aesthetic interpretation of the world, lacking…Read more
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473Dewey and Dancy and the Moral Authority of RulesContemporary Pragmatism 4 (2): 65-75. 2007.Dewey's pragmatist regard for the place of rules in moral deliberation occupies a middle ground between the rejection of rules found in Jonathan Dancy's moral particularism and full scale subsumptivism of actions to rules. Concerning the authority rules should play in one's moral thinking, however, Dewey is closely aligned with the particularists: he rejects their authority over individual cases. This essay takes Dewey's naturalistic approach to the derivation of rules to argue that in some case…Read more
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47Book Review: Rethinking aesthetics: The role of body in design / Edited by Ritu Bhatt (review)Architecture Philosophy 1 (1): 123-126. 2014.
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259Book review: A Theory of General Ethics, by Warwick FoxEthics, Place and Environment 12 (1): 145-148. 2009.
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Oklahoma State UniversityProfessor
Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Professional Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Aesthetics |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Professional Ethics |