Responsibility & Honesty We as architects must find our individual voice. We cannot be quiet and fall into the mundane. We cannot be passive, but rather critical of current trends and the current global environment. We need a message—one of morality and ambition. Architects of today’s postmodern world have the challenging undertaking of accepting the fact that the only architecture that will hold value and be resilient—is one that does not rely on metaphors and symbols for justification. In this sense, the definition of resiliency is rather ambiguous. Do we focus on sustainability, the technologically-advanced, the robust, or something different entirely? This question is one that each individual architect has the duty of answering for themselves. As the main responsibility of architects is to design meaningful spaces that resonate with and satisfy the needs of the user, it is important to evaluate different methods with which this can be achieved. When speaking towards responsibility, it is important to first evaluate and understand ourselves as designers and to interpret our personal interests as an aggregate of our individual experiences. What this does is allow for every building to have a uniquely individual
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