OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE    
       

Tom Spector, AIA, Ph.D
Associate Professor

 

 

 


tom.spector@okstate.edu

101 Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building
Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
Tel. (405) 744-6043
Fax. (405) 744-6491 

Brief Vita: Ph.D in architecture, University of California at Berkeley, 2000. MArch, Georgia Tech, 1982. B.S. in business administration, Florida State University, 1977. Professor Spector has been a registered architect since 1985. He currently hold an NCARB certificate, as well as registrations in both Georgia and California.

Areas of Interest: The focus of Professor Spector's doctoral work and of current scholarship is in developing topics in architectural design ethics. Other interests include the theory and practice of perspective drawing, and architecture design theory, especially as it relates to professional practice issues, and moral philosophy.

Classes teaching/taught:
Arch 2116, 2nd Year Studio
Arch 5193 Practice management
Arch 5293 Project management
Arch 5100 Ethics of the Built Environment
Arch 4216, 4th year studio

Publications:
Professor Spector is the author of
The Ethical Architect: The Dilemma of Contemporary Practice (Princeton, 2001)
The Guide to the Architecture of Georgia (Univ. of South Carolina, 1993)
"Codes of Ethics and Coercion" in Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas, (Routledge, 2006)
"Architecture and the Ethics of Authenticity" ACSA Proceedings, 2006
"Does the Sustainability Movement Sustain a Sustainable Design Philosophy?" in Environmental Ethics, Fall 2006
"How Well do Architects' Codes and Laws Protect the Public? Not Enough!" Harvard Design Magazine, Summer-Fall 2005
"Pragmatism for Architects" in Contemporary Pragmatism, 2005, no.1.
"The Morals of Modernist Minimalism" Harvard Design Magazine, forthcoming, 2006
"Feminist Architects: Meet Feminist Ethics" in Center 15, forthcoming, 2007