One reason that architectural ethics is central to philosophy of architecture is that architects' actions bear great influence over other people's moral lives.
A number of embittered rival architects launched legal action against the city when OMA's scheme was chosen, claiming there was no way their floating citadel could be built within the budget.
BUT "M i-2," with its blockbuster profile, balletic pyrotechnics (a specialty of M i-2oo, one of the chief architects of Hong Kong action films) and, perhaps most important, the magnesium flare of its love scenes, presages stardom of a withe other magnitsde.
I saw her scribble and double-underline the names of contractors and architects, while important action items like "develop master plan" received both a circle and a star.
"Architects, in their actions and their works," concludes Mr Rotbard, "are the ones who finalise the occupation, making it irreversible".For readers unfamiliar with Israelis' acerbic tongues or their continued capacity for self-criticism, this is heady stuff.
In a new, superseding indictment, prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Mr. Weiss, one of the architects of class-action securities lawsuits, with conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements to a grand jury.
In a new indictment that supersedes one handed up in June against the firm, prosecutors in Los Angeles charged Mr. Weiss, one of the architects of class-action securities lawsuits, with conspiracy, racketeering, obstruction of justice and making false statements to a grand jury.
The result is Jeffersonian democracy in action: the architect enables the community to visualize the relationship between forms and ideas.
The name Goldfinger led to a threatened libel action by architect Erno Goldfinger (he of the controversial high-rise council house block), and the film was briefly banned in Israel because of Gert Frobe's one-time membership of the Nazi party.
For this reason, the architects followed two major actions: (i) alter and adapt the architectural specification in DCL 2.0; and (ii) adjust the source artifacts by refactoring the artifacts that do not fit the architectural components.
On this view, the social nature of architecture consists in the status of the discipline as shaped by social convention where such convention is designated by, and guides actions of, architects and other relevant agents.
