Making morality: Sustainable architecture and the pragmatic imagination

Building Research and Information

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 368-378

  Farmer, Graham ^a   Guy, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Built environment; Design practice; Ethics; Intelligent practice; Pragmatism; Sustainable building; Urban design

Indexed keywords

BUILDING DESIGN; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CO-EVOLUTIONARY; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; ETHICAL PRACTICES; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SOCIOTECHNICAL; SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE; SUSTAINABLE BUILDING; SUSTAINABLE DESIGN; UNIVERSAL CODES; URBAN DESIGN;

ARCHITECTURE; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 77953678359     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: 14664321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2010.482236     Document Type: Article

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