The principal issue is how can we design better, more humane buildings.
But it's also an encouragement for Excellent Ordinary architecture, such as the brilliant, low-cost housing schemes by Peter Barber; the Akerman Health Centre in Lambeth, designed by Simon Henley; Sandal Magna School, by Sarah Wigglesworth; and at the smallest scale, ultra-humane buildings like the new Maggies Cancer Care centre at Oxford, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
Dr. Arkin, a Christian who acknowledged the help of God and Jesus Christ in the preface to his book "Behavior-Based Robotics" (MIT Press, 1998), reasons that because rules like the Geneva Conventions are based on humane principles, building them into the machine's mental architecture endows it with a kind of empathy.
It just means changing our strategy to spay/neuter, something that is cheaper, easier and more humane than building shelters to lock up unwanted pets.
Closed in 2002 because authorities felt that its facilities no longer met humane requirements, the building was placed under historic register.
Focusing on socio-legal matters, this sowed the seeds for her later conviction that international refugee law and norms for refugees were fundamental to protecting people's rights and to building a humane response.
It dropped the word "communism" from its party constitution in April, setting the new goal of building "democratic humane socialism". It now favors market-oriented economic reforms.
The German architect Günter Behnisch, who has died aged 88, produced two national monuments – the Munich Olympics of 1972 and the short-lived Bonn parliament of the early 1990s – but the bread and butter of his Stuttgart firm was a long line of humane and progressive social buildings, including schools, colleges and old people's homes, built mainly in south-west Germany.
