Ethics of Architecture and Design

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 Leadership, Gender and Organization: Volume II (2023) and the second edition of Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships (2020). She is co-editor of Contemporary Reflections on Business Ethics: a volume in honor of the late Ronald Duska (2021) and Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination (2019). She is also co-producer of Big Questions, 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 Alleviating Poverty Through Profitable Partnerships (2020) and Global Women Leaders: Breaking Boundaries (2017). Wolfe is co-editor of Displacement and Disqualification: Asian Feminist Theological Perspectives (2022) and Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination (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.

• 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.