Architecture of Moral Anxiety, Notes on Public Building under Construction
9,7 x 13,5cm
176 pages
Perfect Bound
English
2026
Do architects feel a moral burden when their work causes unintended consequences for specific social groups? What is the Architeture of Moral Anxiety? How do other architects perceive these contradictions? Is this reality embraced as an exciting professional challenge, or is it filtered out by technical systems? Does it trigger a sense of unease, or does it lead to a deeper sense of responsibility? For those architects involved and those observing from the outside, do they experience this anxiety? Or is this condition accepted as an inevitable and ordinary reality of the profession? This publication is an investigation into the psychological state of architects navigating the continuous redevelopment of Rotterdam’s Coolsingel.
Through extensive field research, interviews, and surveys, this publication examines the professional conscience of architects and creative practitioners in a global context to identify where individual responsibility becomes fragmented. The book functions as both a field study and an architectural critique, analyzing the displacement of accountability in contemporary practice. It questions whether creative agency remains possible in a world increasingly shaped by automated technical systems and market-driven cycles.