Ethics after the avant-garde: the critical, the post-critical,

In their modern sense, both architecture and ethics are products of what Max Weber called “the disenchantment of the world.” Prior to modernity, religion gave meaning and structure to life. Architecture’s role was to embody sacredness, making tangible the difference between the House of God or the palace of the divinely-graced nobility and the mere hovel a peasant might live in. To find an ethical ground for architecture in the pre-modern world was easy enough: with architecture literally embodying divine power in spatial form, it served the just cause of the Church.