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Author:   Louise Pelletier ,  Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight:   0.480kg
ISBN:  

9780773511484

ISBN 10:   0773511482
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   10 March 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"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."

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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.

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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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