ABSTRACT
Harpham: I’d like to open again the question that I suggested would be fruitful to explore, and which two other speakers took up: whether, and in what way, the question of ethics is the appropriate question to ask of architects. I was struck by the fact that a couple of my fellow speakers seemed to feel that money, or the economy in general, represented a fly in the ointment of architectural practice; that there is something odd about a code of ethics that had an advertisement on a facing page, or that research might be sponsored rather than pure (whatever that might mean). And that struck me as a very notable fact, given that architecture is so conspicuously dependent on relatively large sums of money. Is the ethical status of money a settled question in architecture, in architectural discourse, or is it still open for negotiation?
