Lunch & Learn: Empowering Your Ethics in a Changing Architectural Culture

Ethical dilemmas in a changing culture, nationally and internationally, include problems that are intertwined with project management, which architects face daily. These changes include how the architectural profession responds to issues such as a global pandemic, energy consumption issues, unrest and war, racism, cyber-attacks, and how the AIA’s Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct has recently been amended to address equity, sexual harassment, executions, prolonged solitary confinement in places of incarcerations, and the environment.

How the profession answers these current changes many times involve ethical decisions that impact the health, safety, and welfare of the public. But what has not changed, as stated by Mark Twain—“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.” And this includes how people can resolve their issues without resorting to a full blown-out dispute. This program takes its learning from an actual project’s ethical dilemma, when renowned structural engineer William LeMessurier was engaged by architect Hugh Stubbins, to provide the structural design for a 55 story tower in Manhattan—the Citicorp Headquarters.

This course is taught by Eric Pempus, FAIA, Esq., NCARB, Risk Manager from Design Pro Insurance Group, A Wichert Insurance Agency.

This is a joint event with AIA Columbus and AIA Cincinnati.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Participants will receive insight into the many facets, challenges and project management scenarios for contemporary practice of architecture, recognizing how the HSW of the public is impacted by project design and construction decisions.
• Participants will become familiar with project management problem solving that embrace culture, history, people and the environment, recognizing how the HSW of the public is impacted by project design and construction decisions.
• Participants will learn about strategies to recognize project management problems before they occur, in a fluid professional practice work environment, recognizing how the HSW of the public is impacted by project design and construction decisions.
• Participants will be empowered to share their insights with other participants about their own journeys and successes when solving project management issues, recognizing how the HSW of the public is impacted by project design and construction decisions.