Firmitas-Utilitas-Venustas

“It has already been observed more than once that  a curious object that we suddenly find on the road, in a scenario in which we are not used to seeing it can appear in a new light, collected in a strange loneliness that have inside ethical and aestethical values: a deep intimacy develops between the observer and the opera itself, and it seems that it’s living in  a mysterious sense of happiness wind in his confined space it occupied on the sidewalk, in the middle of the bustling life of city and the continuous comings and goings of people: an immense and strange happiness is released in this island blessed and mysterious against the waves it unleashed in vain sensational ocean storm.”

(Giorgio de Chirico_Statues, mèubles et généraux 1927)

The concept of ethic in the buildings refers to a civic value, that means that everything made by his producer, always belongs to the city and its citizens, and therefore the appearence of each building has an intrinsic ethical value.

About those constructions, the more beautiful and  respectful of the environment and the city they will be, the more can be shared as much as its aesthetics, and  can we  said that work with ethical principles.
The ethics of architecture is for this reason  in the subject (the manufacturer) that contributes to taking care of the city with his projects and in the object itself (the product).

In these terms ethical principles can be considering like absolute values, in which live city’s history and in which all citizens represent themself;on the contrary, aestethical ones are connected to sensitive feelings in front of a building that can generate different types of perceptions depending on the different subjects.