ABSTRACT
Architects continually face the question of what makes a building “good,” with little other than their own opinion and that of others – clients, critics, colleagues – to go on. Is it possible to develop an agreed-upon standard for what constitutes a “good” building? Should that be self-evident or something that we can only know over time, judging it by the effect it has on others? And who determines what is good – those in power or the will of the majority? Or is goodness too subjective to even answer the question? This chapter argues that the answers to such questions depend upon the context and scale with which they are approached.
