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“Architects do not have a moral duty to do good”

News flash for Aravena – everyone has a responsibility to behave ethically.

We all have a responsibility to treat other people, species and the environment with respect, neither architects nor any other group should seek to try and make themselves out to be deserving of special dispensation on that fundamental point.

A particularly graphic and horrendous illustration of what happens when society generally, and architects specifically, think that looking the other way when it comes to ethical obligation can be found here:

http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/auschwitz_architecture/

Promoting willful ignorance, selfishness and arrogance, as some sort of virtue, should not be anyone’s place – least of all Aravena who comes across as the very definition of delusion and self-centeredness.