Week 3 - Ethics in Practice

This lecture focuses on the ethical issues involved in the formation of professional judgment in architectural design and practice and also how to expand one’s professional role and expertise to bring meaning to practice through serving clients. Along with an explanation of relevant laws, codes and regulations that affect architectural practice, the AIA’s 2007 Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct is explained in detail. Organizations such as Architecture for Humanity, CDCs, Rural Studio, or Habitat for Humanity provide opportunities to explore professional ethics and obligations to communities at large. The humanitarian work of several prominent architects and the need for architects to provide leadership in the building design and construction process and on issues of growth, development, and aesthetics in their communities and in the developing world also are addressed.

Ethics Lecture

Assignment:

EPC Ethics Scenarios
How to Give Back
Pressman Ch. 2 "Do the Right Thing"

Week 2 - What is the Profession

This initial framework for the study of professional practice defines the institution of “profession” and describes its fundamental characteristics in contrast to trades, guilds, and other labor organizations. The emergence of the profession of architecture in America is set within a history of the beginnings of architectural practice. Among the legal bases for conferring professional status in architecture, expectations are defined for fiduciary responsibility to the client, professional ethics, and responsibility for public health, safety, welfare. A case is made for a precise yet loose relationship between professional education and practice.

Pressman Chapter 1

Assignment:

Pressman Ch. 1, "Practice, Practice, Practice"
including assignment

Week 1 - Introduction

Introduction to the Course, Professors, Seminar Expectations, Discussion

Questionnaire

Assignment:

Survey