Architecture towards a new ethical challenge

Joseph Rykwert

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5929

Architecture towards a new ethical challenge

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Joseph Rykwert
Joseph Rykwert has lectured and taught at many major schools of architecture throughout the world and has held visiting appointments at Princeton, the Cooper Union, Harvard Graduate School of Design and others. He has been a British Academy visiting professor at the University of Bath and he has held senior fellowships at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington, and the Getty Center for History of Art and the Humanities. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh (1995), and many other universities among which Toronto (2005), Rome (2005) and Trieste (2007). He is a member of the Accademia di San Luca. In 2000 he was awarded the Bruno Zevi prize in architectural history by the Biennale of Venice, and in 2009 the Gold Medal Bellas Artes, Madrid. He has been president of the international council of architectural critics (CICA) since 1996, and is the recipient of the 2014 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Royal Gold Medal. He is the author of fundamental essays the most part of which have been translated in many languages, including Italian.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5929

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Ethical approach, Challenge, Dialogue, Ethical architecture, Architects’ role

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The most Pressing Challenge to any architect seems to me the ethical one.
Always to see the client as a person,as an interlocutor however anonymous they may seem, however committee-like the commissioning process — and to see their work as a dialogue with the client.

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2015-11-30

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Rykwert, J. (2015). Architecture towards a new ethical challenge. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5929

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Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015): TEACHING AND MAKING ARCHITECTURE TODAY. A global inquiry, special issue

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