ABSTRACT
Contributors to this part explore the role of the humanities in the rapidly changing design environment of extreme uncertainty and arbitrariness. The papers focus on the role of ethics in discharging the responsibility society bestows on architects to create buildings and dwellings. The refl ective nature of praxis with ethics embedded at its core, the role of history in expanding and sustaining the ethical responsibility, the reviewed notion of techne as the ability to know, and the opportunities posed by migration and the concomitant loss of urban autonomy are discussed by the contributors.
