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The Ethical Function of Architecture Karsten Harries
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At a critical stage for design disciplines and the role of architects, for Fasolo, works of architecture still manifest the degree of civilization achieved by a civil neighbourhood during a certain period in history. Taken unguarded by the collapse of the world stock markets and the demise of financial institutions, we should not be surprised by the deepening of the moral-ethical breakdown that generated this economic crisis in the first place. Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture. According to their own design ethics, making interpretation converge with a transformation hypothesis that gave meaning to the built environment, unifying in the “thought which became architecture” the conscience of countless phenomena which otherwise appear as simple, .. The most stunningly noticeable tendency of the field is the proliferation of charismatic ('hot'), aesthetically sophisticated ('cool') formal objects that are largely abstractly sculptural in the sense that they don't have any function outside of aesthetics. Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22715. In a sense his work in Bolzano and later in Venice is asking us to acknowledge pollution's place in our lives and recognize our role in producing it. The project was inspired, in part, by one of Otero-Pailos's heroes, John Ruskin, the British art and architecture theorist whose prodigious literary output included a book called The Ethics of the Dust (Otero-Pailos omitted the second “the”), originally published in 1865. I recently read Karsten Harries' The Ethical Function of Architecture, which follows Sigfried Giedion in arguing that the main task for architecture today is the interpretation of a way of life valid for our time. The erosion of the moral-ethical In its most extreme version the Architecture's mere existence became its function, just as the inflated growth of the financial market became its only raison d'être.