Hossein Sadri
Dr. Hossein Sadri is a critic and activist. He studied architecture and received his Master of Science degree from Tabriz Azad University in Iran and completed his Ph.D. studies at Gazi University in Turkey. During his PhD studies he conducted research on ethics and philosophy of Human Rights and wrote his thesis on “Architecture and Human Rights”. As an activist he worked in different positions in the Amnesty International. He was the national coordinatior of Human Rights Education and the EU Representative of Amnesty International in Turkey. He currently holds an Associate Professor position at the Department of Architecture in Girne American University, where he teaches courses on ethics and philosophy of architecture, urbanization and social ecology and architectural/urban design. He is also the co-leader of the "De-Urban Design Studio" a design studio which applies urban acupuncture, permaculture design and transition design approached. He is the member of the borad of the GAU Centre for Habitat Studies. He is a permaculture designer (PDC 2017 Permaculture Research Institute TURKEY) and studies Agriculture at Anadolu University. He worked as the head of the department of architecture and the dean of the faculty of architecture, design and fine arts from 2012 and he left the position after his appointment as the vice rector for research and international relations in 2016. He wrote and edited several books, journals and articles. Recently he edited a book, entitled "Neoliberalisma and Architecture of the Post-Professional Era" which is expected to be published in 2018 by Springer-Nature. During 2018 academic year, he conducts research on Current Urbanization Problems as a visiting scholar in the Graduate Program in Urban Design, in Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York - CUNY.
Phone: 0090 392 650 2000
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varlığın ortadan yok olmasına, kirlenmesine, ezilmesine sebep olmuştur. Toplumsal iktidar biçimlerinden bağımsız olarak, mimarlığın bir mekan tanımlama pratiği olarak geliştirdiği bu iktidar biçiminin ortaya çıkardığı çeşitli zulümleri tartışmaya açmak amacıyla bu konu farklı perspektiflerden değerlendirmeye alınacaktır.
ancient Greek word of Arkhitekton (ἀρχιτέκτων), and in the meaning
of construction skill and the mastery of building, has a long history.
However what is called architecture as a profession today has aroused
during the 19th Century by its re-classification within the limits of design,
its isolation from building and construction, the reality and one to one
scale and its institutionalization as one of the arms of the capitalist system
and modern state. The profession of architecture is implemented by
of professionals who have been awarded with the title of architect and
authorised in the field of architecture by state and other legal authorities.
Architects obtain the capabilities of spatial design and organization.
Accumulation of this capability increases the effects of architecture on
socio-cultural and economic-political transformations and consequently the
risk of using this power for non-humanitarian goals. To allay the anxiety of
the possible misuse of this power and to keep it down, professional ethics
has been delineated in architecture, as it has been in all other professions.
However focusing on the client-serving professional interests, professional
ethics inspire the guild-related activities in the profession.
paradigm of ‘professionalism’ that prevailed throughout the period of the modern (nation) state, much of the twentieth century, is no longer persuasive.
The professions of architecture and urban planning have been faced with big transformations parallel to these changes and have passed from the era of professionalism and entered to the ‘post professional’ era. Post Professional Architecture and Planning is losing its public, national and social role through being restructured via business-led motivations. The main motivation of architectural and urban practices in the post professional era have shifted from designers’ personal attempts at creating spaces with high ‘use value’, in the public
interest, towards the image-oriented, high ‘exchange value’ productions of specialists for private interests.
Both in architecture and urban planning, their practice and education has been re-organized in the era of “post-professionalism”. The intended technical and professional mono-type curricula of architecture and planning education changed to more diverse, theoretical and experimental educational programmes worldwide. The professional organizations changed their shells and became more independent institutes with more activities and visions beyond their traditional professional parameters. While mainstream architecture and urban planning has transformed to the business model, alternative movements in architecture and
planning have created architectural and urban activism and re-made the political agenda for architecture and urbanism by establishing diverse initiatives against war, natural disasters, environmental degradation, inequalities, and violations of human rights. Post-Professional Architecture and Urban Planning appears in these two forms of architectural-urban business and activism. While the first one derives from neoliberalization of professionalism in architecture and urbanism, the second one is the reaction against neoliberalization from architectural and urban point of view. The aim is to create a book to discuss various
transformations of architectural and urban practice and education in the changeover from the era of
“professionalism” to that of “post-professionalism”.
Architects obtain the capabilities of spatial design and organization. Accumulation of this capability increases the effects of architecture on socio-cultural and economic-political transformations and consequently the risk of using this power for non-humanitarian goals. To allay the anxiety of the possible misuse of this power and to keep it down, professional ethics has been delineated in architecture, as it has been in all other professions.
However focusing on the client-serving professional interests, professional ethics inspire the guild-related activities in the profession.
Today when almost all the professions act under the influences of liberal and neo-liberal order, professional ethics, which are supposed to be subjects of human values, are restricted to the image of professions and their market shares. Codes of professional conducts as the documents of professional ethics, which should manifest inter-professional and ultra-professional as well as intra-professional moral rules, have been issued according to the rules of capitalism and limited only to the intraprofessional regulations and personal responsibilities of individuals. Similarly in architecture, codes of professional ethics exclude the moral accountability of the profession, collective responsibilities of architects and take no notice of the ultra-professional role of architecture and the roles of other actors in the field rather than individual architects.
This article investigates the foundation of professions, discussing the ethical validity of professional ethics according to the processes of legitimization of professions and examines the profession of architecture and architectural ethics in this context. The codes of professional ethics prepared by the most operative worldwide professional organizations in architecture such as Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), The Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), International Union of Architects (UIA) and The American Institute of Architects (AIA), are scrutinized in order to grasp the lack of humanitarian concerns and interrogate the capitalist interests of codes of professional ethics in architecture. The article recommends the term of architectural ethics opposing professional ethics
and extends a proposal related to its contents.
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