Towards an Architecture of Social Responsibility

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dc.contributor.advisorRockcastle, Garthen_US
dc.contributor.authorHickerson, Jamil Xavieren_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-06-25T05:34:13Z
dc.date.available2015-06-25T05:34:13Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis asserts that the built environment, as a primary stage for social and economic activity, responds to and contributes to social and economic conditions. Architects must design buildings that are appropriate not only with respect to culture, climate, and available resources, but with respect to societal needs and inequities that are often ignored. The current state of the profession of architecture must be reevaluated in light of its passivity towards questions of social justice. The architect must assume greater responsibility as an agent for the public interest because the architect has a discernable, measureable impact on society whether he or she wants/intends to. My goal is to advance a basic design-making framework to demonstrate how architects and designers can address social injustices in the built environment through a design project which would result in benefiting the social and environmental opportunities of diverse stakeholders.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M24K8S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/16417
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial Responsibilityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSociologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSustainabilityen_US
dc.titleTowards an Architecture of Social Responsibilityen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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