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Architects must be proficient in a variety of business practices to contribute to, manage, or launch a successful firm. They are responsible for the same kind of legal, financial, marketing, management, and administrative activities as any other professional. Within these broad categories, however, there are many details, including professional standards and documents, that are unique to the profession of architecture.
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| Title of eBook: The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice | |
| Release Date: 09-26-2011 | |
| Publisher: Wiley |
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The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice
Chapter One
Professional Life
1.1 Ethics and Professional Conduct Phillip H. Gerou, FAIA
Architects are confronted daily with moral choices, competing loyalties, and ethical dilemmas. Although such situations can be ambiguous or paradoxical, basic tenets held in common by the profession can help architects determine how to respond to them.
The need to articulate and advocate ethical standards has never been more critical. Concern about professional ethics, while not a recent development, has certainly become more conspicuous in recent years. This visibility has led to extensive inquiries into the sources, development, interpretation, and enforcement of ethical codes. Principles guiding professional conduct are based on the core values held by that profession. These core values originate in legal definitions, social mores, moral codes, and common business practices.
Legal systems are based on historical precedent and commonly accepted social interactions between individuals or legal entities. The rights of individuals are protected by mutual acceptance of this legal structure. Contractual and other legal responsibilities and their consequences are generally well defined in law and in written agreements. But when these responsibilities and their consequences are specific to a profession, they may prove difficult to legally enforce.
There are many social conventions, moral beliefs, and ethical dilemmas that are not legislated or enforced by any regulatory agency. These may include widely accepted values but are not part of our legal system because they lack consensus or represent conflicting opinions. These values
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