ABSTRACT
Architects have ethical responsibilities not just to clients and communities, but also to their own colleagues and employees, something that some architects – in fact and fiction – have overlooked. The profession has had a history of treating its youngest members poorly, overworking and underpaying them, and while that has begun to change in recent decades, it speaks to the challenge of collegiality in a highly competitive profession. Ethics also teaches us that un-collegial behavior can become self-defeating, as prospective employees avoid their firms and as they under-value themselves when working for clients as much as they do those who work for them.
