ABSTRACT
Architecture has an ethical responsibility to facilitate intellectual development. In the communication of ideas, architecture has a responsibility to facilitate intellectual development, because beyond shelter and the security of activity, nothing is more important in human life. Lineaments are the lines of the design of the building in the mind of the architect, the organization of the space by geometry and mathematics. If the architecture is designed in such a way that the lineaments are discernable through the matter, the conceptual organization of space in mathematics and geometry, then facilitates intellectual development. Architecture has the potential to be a virtus of intellectual development in its manifold synthetic unity as an architectonic system or syntax, but only insofar as it communicates its conceptual structure in contradiction to its physical presence. Architecture in particular has an ethical responsibility to facilitate the intellectual development of the individual for the virtue, happiness and self-realization of both the individual and the culture.
