•  2438
    Pragmatism for Architects
    Contemporary 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
  •  921
    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
  •  431
    Dewey and Dancy and the Moral Authority of Rules
    Contemporary 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
  •  363
    Architecture, Ethics and the Personhood of Place (review)
    Environmental Ethics 31 (1): 101-104. 2009.
  •  239
    Environmental Dilemmas (review)
    Environmental Ethics 31 (4): 439-440. 2009.
  •  47
    Book Review: Rethinking aesthetics: The role of body in design / Edited by Ritu Bhatt (review)
    Architecture Philosophy 1 (1): 123-126. 2014.
  •  32
    Architecture and the ethics of authenticity
    Journal 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
  •  24
    Philosophy Of Architecture / Written by Christian Illies & Nicholas Ray
    with Stefan Koller
    Architecture Philosophy 2 (1). 2016.
  •  18
    Architecture and the Political
    Architecture 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
  •  17
    Should Architects Refrain From Designing Prisons for Long-term Solitary Confinement? – An Open Letter to the Architecture Profession
    with Craig Borkenhagen, Mark Davis, Carrie Foster, Jacob Gann, Tou Lee Her, Aaron Klossner, Evan Murta, Ryan Rankin, Maria Cristina Rodriguez Santos, Connor Tascott, Sarah Turner, and Spencer Williams
    Architecture 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
  •  17
    Architecture Philosophy Vol. 3 No. 1
    Architecture Philosophy 3 (1). 2018.
  •  16
    Editorial: Essence and Architecture
    Architecture Philosophy 5 (2). 2022.
  •  14
    Complete Issue
    Architecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.
  •  9
    Editorial: Building as Service
    Architecture Philosophy 5 (1). 2020.
  •  9
    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
  •  8
    Call for Papers: Building as Service
    with Mark Jensen and Carolyn Fahey
    Architecture Philosophy 2 (2). 2017.
  •  7
    Complete Issue
    Architecture Philosophy 2 (2). 2017.
  •  5
    Complete Issue
    Architecture Philosophy 2 (1). 2016.
  •  2
    Editorial
    Architecture Philosophy 2 (1). 2016.
  • Book Reviews (review)
    Architecture Philosophy 4 (1). 2019.
    The Philosophy of Chinese Architecture by David Wang Thinking Like a Mall by Steven Vogel