Architecture in the 21st century, a world conscious of environmental limits and cultural diversity, towards a technological globalisation. What strategies could enable the potential for manifesting an ethical intentionality inherent in the architectural profession and how is this ethical intentionality affected in Public Architecture, where the individual client is substituted by civil society?
This research paper aims to investigate a theoretical supposition in the fields of architecture and its ethical ideologies. It pursues new prospects to advise design practitioners and professional institutes by reconsidering interdependence between theory and practice and the influence thereof in substantiating architecture itself as a form of ethical investigation.
Within the perspective of an analytical and intellectual framework, architecture represents dwelling, subjectivity, civic relations, and professional practice as well as more challenging notions of contentious urban demolition and rebuilding projects, increased emphasis on public space in urban planning, and specialized architectural projects such as museums, laboratories, hospitals, and low-income housing. These concepts and the consequences of their implementation integrates the ethical dimension of architecture with the current professional practice controversies.
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Our generation’s consciousness is a fundamental characteristic of our existence and the evolution thereof is represented in the search for ethics being carried out in professional practices, redefining our legislative guidelines and standards. Actions implemented as a profession have a direct impact on the ethical framework of the individual stakeholders, but more importantly on the public as a whole and represents highly important symbolic effects that frequently lasts many