Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1999
Journal or Book Title
87th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Legacy
First Page
189
Last Page
194
Conference Title
87th ACSA Annual Meeting
Conference Date
March 1999
City
Minneapolis, MN, United States
Abstract
Ethics asks: What is good? What is arete excellencelvirtue? What is right? What is just.
Central questions of the discipline of architecture, architectural education and architecture's multiple modes of practicing are: What are architecture's intents, purposes and impacts? Do the acts of designing and building our habitat intrinsically embrace the questions that ethics asks? Commonsense may answer yes due to architecture's fundamental role in addressing human needs. Given that architecture is thought, process and object, and that its purposes range from shelter and construction to engaging "beauty" and theoretical and utopian speculation, what would the grounding for those ethics be?
Copyright Owner
ACSA
Copyright Date
1999
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Palermo, Gregory S., "Exploring Ethical Grounding for Architecture: Four Lenses" (1999). Architecture Conference Proceedings and Presentations. 75.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/arch_conf/75
Comments
This proceeding is from 8th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Legacy (Washington, DC: ACSA, 1999).