The Ethics of Architecture and Design

Archeworks and its Contributions to Society and Community
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-16786-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 397 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Design Research Foundations

This collection focuses on the revolutionary philosophy of Archeworks: ethics is embedded in all architecture and design and all architecture and design should serve a social good. Stanley Tigerman and Eva Maddox, the cofounders of Archeworks and its postgraduate educational program, embodied this philosophy in their teaching and work. Through action learning, students further developed this philosophy, which is found in their descriptions of the topics they perused at Archeworks. Although Archeworks closed in 2015, the revolutionary nature of its founders and their thinking lives on today, not simply in the United States but also around the globe as demonstrated in the final chapter of the book.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

L. Maddox, Eva

H. Werhane, Patricia

Wentzel Wolfe, Regina (Gina)

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technik: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Setting the context.- Chapter 1. The Germ of an Idea .- Chapter 2. What is Ethics in Design and Architecture?.- Part 2. The Archeworks Papers.- Chapter 3. Healing the World: A Challenge for Designers.- Chapter 4. Ethics? Design?.- Chapter 5. New Harmony: The Hands Can’t Do What the Mind Can’t See.- Chapter 6. Beneath Ethics: Love, Being, and Non-Action.- Chapter 7. Now that We Can Do Anything, What Will We Do?.- Part 3. Design Denied: The Dynamics of Withholding Good Design and its Ethical Implications.- Chapter 8. Design Denied Introduction.- Chapter 9. Editor’s Preface.- Chapter 10. Thesis: Design Manifesto.- Chapter 11. On Justice and Design.- Chapter 12. What is Good Design?.- Chapter 13. The Ways in Which Good Design is Withheld.- Chapter 14. A Contextualization of Withholding.- Chapter 15. Antithesis: Is Withholding a Priori Bad?.- Chapter 16. Synthesis: Redesigning “Design”.- Part 4. Convention Challenged.- Chapter 17. Archeworks as action learning and research: a critical pedagogical reflection.- Chapter 18. Archeworks: The Brief History of an Idea (1994-2006).- Chapter 19. 12 Years of Archeworks: An Overview.- Chapter 20. Architecture v. Design: Crosswords and Crossroads.- Chapter 21. Sustaining Speculations: Archeworks in the Present Tense.- Chapter 22. The Problematic of Getting Products to Market.- Chapter 23. Conceptualization v. Actualization.- Chapter 24. Idealism v. Reality.- Chapter 25. Case Studies: AIDS Medication Carrying Case, Mobi’s World, M.I.L.E., Sustainable Solutions for Office Furniture.- Part 5. From Archeworks to the Future of Architecture and Design.- Chapter 26. Archeworks: Still Ahead of Its Time.- Chapter 27.The Revolution Continues.

Über Autor(innen)

Eva L. Maddox , Emerita FIIDA, Assoc. AIA, LEED AP ID+C and cofounder of Archeworks, is an internationally renowned designer who created the concept of “branded environments.” She was formerly a Design Principal at Perkins&Will and founder of her own firm, Eva Maddox Associates, which merged with Perkins&Will. She is the recipient of more than 200 design awards. In 1992, Maddox was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. She received an Honorary BFA from the University of Cincinnati in 2006 and the Contract Magazine Legend Award in 2011 for her significant lifetime contributions to raising the standards of commercial design.

Patricia H. Werhane , Professor Emerita, was formerly Ruffin Professor of Business Ethics at Darden School of Business, University of Virginia and Wicklander Chair in Business Ethics at DePaul University. Currently, she is a Fellow at the Center for Professional Responsibility at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. Werhane is the author or editor of more than 30 books and over 170 book chapters and articles. She is co-author of (2023) and the second edition of (2020). She is co-editor of (2021) and (2019). She is also co-producer of , an Emmy award-winning documentary series. 

Regina (Gina) Wentzel Wolfe is Professor Emerita at Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. She was Christopher Chair in Business Ethics at the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University and served on the theology faculty at Saint John's University (MN). She is co-author of the second edition of (2020) and (2017). Wolfe is co-editor of (2022) and (2019). She was a Senior Wicklander Fellow at DePaul University’s Institute for Business and Professional Ethics from 2007-2015. Her current research interests include women’s leadership and economic empowerment, poverty alleviation, and organizational ethics.