Musings

“Common sense, common care, and common prudence, were all sunk into Mrs. Dashwood’s romantic delicacy.”

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

Where does morality begin? Where does architectural duty end? For me, these questions begin with the history of architecture and the preservation of the urban fabric, something which served as the original inspiration to study architecture. Whilst I may not possess the same ‘romantic delicacies’ as Mrs. Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, I am fully aware that architects, as builders of the social sphere, cannot afford to drop the moral high standard which is expected of us. Indeed it is essential for architects, as negotiators and as the generalist coordinator as we have previously identified to uphold the standards of society - and where fault is found, whilst it is not necessarily our legal duty, it is certainly our moral duty to enforce change for the greater good.