Architecture of the other 99%? Power, Economy, and the Dilemma of History

ACSA, Essay, expanding design practices, MASS Design Group, Mohamed Ismail, No Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms, Wei Zhao

Architect’s role, Denver, Economy, Empowering society, Essay, Ethics, Global Awareness, History, History of Architecture, Planetary urbanizations, Politics, 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.