Daniel Libeskind, who has built a reputation working on historically and culturally sensitive projects such as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the reconstruction of New York’s World Trade Center site, said beautiful architecture was no excuse for working with “morally questionable” clients.
“Even if they produce gleaming towers, if they are morally questionable, I’m not interested,” he said in the interview with The Architects’ Journal.
— independent.co.uk
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That is refreshing to hear.
The problem becomes when the morals are not easy to see. There are loads of immoral people hiring architects - and it's not also so obvious as, say, a totalitarian, repressive city-state regime.
aha, this is from an israeli architect who also builds in israel...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini
the only acceptable client is a puppy.
or a panda.
ok, maybe china central television.
does kim jong un need a new hotel perchance?
is sheldon adelson morally questionable?
i hate puppies.
danny, shut up already, your hypocrisy is showing.
Agreed. It just seems a little too targeted at architecture in the Middle East...
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