Questioning Architectural Judgment

<p></p> <p>The book shines light on the problem of judgment particularly in the realm of architectural technics and the codes that regulate it. The struggle to define sustainability and thus judge architecture through such lenses is but one dimension of the contemporary problem of judgment. By providing the reader with an inherently interdisciplinary study of a particular discipline-architecture it brings to the topic lenses that challenge the too frequently unexamined assumptions of the discipline. By situating architecture within a broader cultural field and using case studies to dissect the issues discussed the book emphasizes that it is not simply a matter of designing better more efficient or more stringent codes to guide place-making but a matter of <i>reconstructing the boundaries of the systems to be coded</i>. The authors are winners of the EDRA Place-Research Award 2014 for their work on the Green Alley Demonstration Project used in the book.</p>