Ethical aspects of the sustainable architectural design

Robert Idem

Abstract

The idea of sustainable development has been reflected in numerous declarations, documents, laws and regulations. However, its realization still has the character of a challenge – architecture seeks a concept of environmentally friendly and socially responsible design, referred to as balanced or environmental design. Unfortunately, the social and ecological issues of design are not the centre of attention, they are trivialized or even ignored, while the native design-realization practice does not meet the standards of the developed countries. If we were to treat the challenges of balanced development seriously (there does not seem to be an alternative for the future), the seriousness of the problem becomes meaningful – the sustainable architectural design would have to be treated as a direction in the theory evolution and the design methodology [2, p. 156]. The questions of ethics play an important role in this concept. Their specificity concerns the environmental ethics (in axiological realm as the ideological basis of design) and the problems of social recognition (in practical and methodological realm).

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