The “devotion to the art of architecture” that Carl Sapers, Hon. AIA, references as his fourth “tension point” in the video “Ethics: From Building to Architecture” might also be termed an ethical obligation—or, more safely, an ethical aspiration. His cohorts in the video—Henry Cobb, FAIA, and Mack Scogin, FAIA—exhort architects to go beyond the limits of what we consider professional ethics (what Cobb terms “the ethics of practice”) in order to fully realize the potential of architecture.
Read the complete article by Cornelius (Kin) DuBois, FAIA on the national AIA website at this link: http://www.aia.org/practicing/AIAB108412?utm_source=Real%20Magnet&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=2417214952&utm_campaign=92961127