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Design for Values in Architecture

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The notion of design for values, or value-sensitive design, is founded on the idea that design principles are related to ethical, moral, social, and political values. In architecture, a general relation between values and design is present throughout the history of the discipline. However, the question then arises which values are related to design principles and how. This chapter examines architecture as a general application domain in which values have been of central concern throughout its history. It departs from the supposition that values are by necessity part of the project of architecture and unravel aspects of these values. These aspects include the distinction between implicit and explicit values, the unexpected effects of design intentions, the distinction between general values and their particular (historical) readings, and perhaps most importantly the life-span of buildings, which often outlasts the value systems they arose from.

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  1. University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Lara Schrijver

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  1. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Jeroen van den Hoven

  2. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Pieter E. Vermaas

  3. Department of Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    Ibo van de Poel

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Schrijver, L. (2015). Design for Values in Architecture . In: van den Hoven, J., Vermaas, P., van de Poel, I. (eds) Handbook of Ethics, Values, and Technological Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6970-0_22

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