“Architecture is a negotiated art and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings there is diplomacy required.”
-- Thom Mayne
I’m the Designer. My Client’s the Autocrat.
By ROBIN POGREBIN
Thom Mayne’s design for a corporate headquarters in Shanghai.
FOUR months ago the architect Daniel Libeskind declared publicly that architects should think long and hard before working in China, adding, “I won’t work for totalitarian regimes.” His remarks raised hackles in his profession, with some architects accusing him of hypocrisy because his own firm had recently broken ground on a project in Hong Kong. >>> Read More
Ed: "To take or not to take," a question that seems to bother me if I were to be offered a commission by a would-be client knowing the fact that the he is a corrupted politician or makes his living through immoral activities. I know for sure that architecture per se is not immoral but working for such client to realize his dream or political agenda, could it be considered an immoral act from an ethical point of (personal) view?
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