Iliescu (art and architecture, U. of Virginia) compiles 12 essays that explore how ethical considerations influence the practices of art and architecture, maintaining that artists and designers
should adopt a critical attitude toward what they create but allow ethics to affect their aesthetics. Architects, artists, historians, and philosophers from the US discuss the ethical
responsibility inherent in creating art, how aesthetics and ethics are intertwined, and how architecture should address both formal abstraction and human function. They also consider the part
architecture plays in global warming, the harmony between landscape and architecture, and specific sites and buildings. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
