Ecological Ethics and the Role of the Architect
- urbanNext, March 13, 2018.
- 1182 words.
ACSA, Andrea Wheeler, Energy and sustainability, Essay, expanding design practices, Faysal Tabbarah, Gray Read, Nicole Lambrou, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms
Anthropocene, Architect’s role, Denver, Developing policies, Ecological agencies, Ecological researches, Ecology, Essay, Ethics, Sustainability, Urban Paradigms, USA 106th ACSA Annual Meeting | The Ethical Imperative March 15-17, 2018 | Denver, Colorado Co-chairs: Amir Ameri, University of Colorado Denver & Rebecca O’Neal Dagg, Auburn University Host School: University of Colorado Denver
In its material, cultural, and economic effects, architecture poses essential and unavoidable ethical quandaries and challenges. In its performative capacity to express ideology, architecture is inexorably entangled in questions of power and legitimation. As part of an interconnected global economic infrastructure that consumes natural resources at an alarming rate, architecture raises new and pressing questions with which educators, practitioners, and students must engage.