GLOBAL DESIGN PRACTICE WEEK 3: PRACTICE AS ETHICAL IMPERATIVE
ELEMENTAL, Monterrey Housing
SCHEDULE
Monday 1/30 Office visit: Booth Hansen Wednesday 2/1 Reading response 2 due; Lecture 3
LECTURE 3: ETHICAL IMPERATIVES IN GLOBAL DESIGN CONTEXTS
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READINGS
Alejandro Aravena and Andres Iacobelli, “Introduction,” Elemental (Hatje Cantz, 2012). PDF
Mohsen Mostafavi, “Agonistic Urbanism,” in Ethics of the Urban: The City and the Spaces of the Political (Harvard Graduate School of Design: Lars Muller Publishers, 2017), 9-16. PDF
—. “Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?” Harvard Design Magazine Iss. 32 (Spring/Summer 2010): 124-135. PDF
Tom Spector, The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001), viii-xi and 3-22. PDF
READING RESPONSE
Does design have an ethical obligation, and if so, to what end?
Due Monday 2/6, 9am, uploaded to Box