Architecture & Autocracy

Every few years a design critic writes about the questionable ethical parameters in which architects, desperate to build at any cost (including any moral cost), freely operate. Back in 2015 it was the New York Times article by Michael Kimmelman, about the American Institute of Architects’s (AIA) rejection of an ethical prohibition regarding the design of execution chambers by its members. Today is it Justin Davidson’s article What Will It Take for Architects to Stop Working With Autocrats?.