Questioning Architectural Judgment

The book shines light on the problem of judgment, particularly in the realm of architectural "technics" and the codes that regulate it.

Steven A. Moore is Bartlett Cocke Professor of Architecture and Planning and Director of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Design at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Barbara Wilson is an Assistant Professor of Planning and Sustainable Design and the Director for the Center of Sustainable Development at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

General Introduction: Questioning Knowledge and Judgment in Architecture Part 1: Art, Technology and Professionalism Introduction 1. Maintaining Frames: Architecture-as-Art 2. Switching Frames: Architecture-as-Technology 3. Standardization, Justice and the Built Environment Part 2: A Taxonomy of Codes Introduction 4. Frame Analysis as a Practical Tool 5. Tacit Codes in traditional and Modern Building Cultures 6. Sumptuary Codes, Taste, and Distinction in the Built World 7. Economic Codes and the Civic Economy Part 3: Sociotechnical Codes as Both Index and Tool of Change Introduction 8. Social Groups, Technological Frames, and Focal Events 9. Coding Disability: A Case Study of Frame Integration 10. Coding Affordable Housing: A Case Study of Frame Transformation 11. Sociotechnical Coding as Design Glossary References