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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:
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
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