The #AIA professional ethics guidelines reside as a kind of side dish next to their main course offering: the suite of standard contracts nearly universally employed by the USconstruction industry to govern responsibilities betw architects, owners, & contractors (A113,B111,B112)
In effect, however, the AIA Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct may be the more essential document. . .
Jun 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
26. We refuse to include"carbon-" or "emissions-credits" or offsets when considering the emissions impact of specifying any product, material, or assembly. Credits and offsets remain problematic and largely untraceable.
27. We refuse to choose commercial expediency over ethical climate choices however much it may disadvantage our firms' business success, or our careers.
Jun 26, 2022 • 25 tweets • 3 min read
A Degrowth Manifesto for Architecture
1. We refuse to accept the dominant response of the AEC industry to urgent environmental and human rights injustices, which we see as inadequate, accommodationist, diversionary, and, in some cases, opportunistic.
2. (This is inclusive of Canon VI of the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, “Obligations to the Environment”*)
